Principal Network Developer

Oracle•Seattle, WA

7d•$102,300 - $209,500

About The Position

The Network Region Build (NRB) team deploys greenfield infrastructure, establishes network connectivity for new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions, and enables compute connectivity for child sites. Its work includes building and managing data center fabrics, edge networks, backbone and fiber metro networks, and supporting multi-cloud initiatives. The team provides operational support during build phases and oversees network and server rack additions, decommissions, and capacity expansions. It also drives automation, process improvements, and tool development in collaboration with Network Automation. The Principal Network Developer designs, deploys, and operates large-scale global cloud networks. The role calls for deep knowledge of network protocols and programming skills to support automation at scale across OCI’s global network of devices and connected servers. The role leads moderately complex network lifecycle and delivery efforts, translates high-level architectures into detailed designs, and may coordinate a small group of engineers. It provides technical leadership, specialized escalation and break-fix support, root-cause analysis, network automation, testing, reliability and monitoring improvements, and guidance to junior staff. The position also works with product teams, vendors, service teams, networking leadership, and program management to meet technical and operational requirements.

Requirements

Deep understanding of network protocols.
Programming skills to support network automation at scale.
Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle.
Ability to design, deploy, validate, and operate large-scale cloud or data center networks.
Ability to translate high-level network architectures into detailed designs and manage moderately complex technical projects.
Experience or capability in developing automation, scripts, testing tools, telemetry, dashboards, alerting, and configuration-management solutions.
Ability to troubleshoot complex network issues, provide escalation and break-fix support, and conduct root-cause analysis.
Ability to lead technical work, coordinate across teams, and provide guidance and coaching to junior engineers.
Ability to collaborate with vendors, product teams, monitoring and SRE teams, and internal stakeholders.
Ability to analyze network performance and capacity data and develop scalable improvements.

Responsibilities

Lead network lifecycle management programs by defining objectives and delivery procedures, organizing technical milestones and tasks, and coordinating project work.
Decompose high-level network architectures into detailed designs and lead the development of network solutions with complex interactions.
Coordinate with service teams to ensure network solutions are supported by monitoring and automation systems.
Serve as a Tier 2 or specialized escalation point for network events, provide break-fix support, and drive systematic resolution of complex network issues.
Lead or contribute to root-cause analysis and develop playbooks for resolving network issues.
Develop scripts and automation modules for complex network tasks, testing, operations, service reliability, and cross-team workflows.
Build and maintain dashboards, telemetry tools, alerting systems, reusable scripts, infrastructure pipelines, and configuration-management tools.
Design and validate scalable network systems and strategies, assess design risks, and recommend mitigation measures.
Design test strategies and reusable test cases, lead team-level testing practices, and incorporate incident findings into validation improvements.
Review and approve L1 and L2 network changes and present high-impact changes to change-management boards.
Support pre-production validation and prepare audit documentation and test evidence for GRC processes.
Work with monitoring and SRE teams to define network-health metrics and SLO-based thresholds and improve anomaly detection.
Lead incident response during support rotations and build tools that help frontline teams handle network failures and recurring operational issues.
Mentor junior engineers, provide technical guidance, and lead customer engagements on technical escalations with actionable RCA documentation.
Collaborate with vendors and internal stakeholders on hardware, firmware, software, cloud network code, standards, and operational requirements.
Participate in RFQs and RFPs and may lead adoption of new vendor hardware.
Coordinate with product teams, networking leadership, and PMO to assess gaps, solutions, and product or service needs.
Analyze performance metrics such as latency, throughput, and packet loss, and forecast infrastructure capacity for anticipated traffic and growth.
Manage moderately complex project tasks and deliverables, delegate and prioritize work, and adjust plans as resources, timelines, or risks change.
Contribute to process improvement, continuous learning, talent development, and candidate interviews.