Principal Network Developer - Regional Network Reliability

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Oracle is hiring a Principal Network Developer for its Regional Network Reliability organization in Nashville, Tennessee. The role designs, develops, validates, and operates large-scale enterprise, data-center, and cloud network fabrics, including leaf-spine and multi-fabric CLOS architectures. It supports production and lab environments and involves network design and scaling, operational readiness, firmware and configuration lifecycle management, network change governance, incident response, and reliability improvement. The position develops network automation, scripts, dashboards, telemetry, and alerting systems; builds and improves testing strategies; validates network changes and systems before production deployment; and supports governance, risk, compliance, and security requirements. The engineer works with project managers, operations, monitoring and SRE teams, vendors, customers, and other engineering groups, while providing technical guidance and mentoring junior engineers. It also contributes to architecture and roadmap decisions, capacity planning, and performance improvements. The minimum qualification is either eight years of relevant experience; a bachelor's degree in a related field plus four years of relevant experience; or a master's degree in a related field plus two years of relevant experience. Relevant fields include network engineering, electrical engineering, cloud programming, or networking research and development. Preferred qualifications include additional experience and an OCI, AWS, or similar cloud associate certification within six months of hire. The listed U.S. hiring range is $102,300–$209,500 per year; the role may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

Requirements

Deep experience designing large-scale leaf-spine and multi-fabric data-center networks, including CLOS architectures.
Hands-on expertise with Ethernet switching, BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, IP addressing, routing scale, ECMP, QoS, and network segmentation.
Strong knowledge of management, out-of-band (OOB), console-server, and production data-center network architectures.
Experience with network operating systems and hardware such as Arista EOS, Cisco Nexus/NX-OS, NVIDIA Spectrum/Cumulus, or comparable platforms.
Experience designing or operating AI/HPC/GPU cluster networks, including RDMA/RoCE, lossless Ethernet, and high-bandwidth fabrics.
Experience with network telemetry and observability, including gNMI, streaming telemetry, SNMP, syslog, inventory/CMDB integration, and monitoring systems.
Experience leading firmware lifecycle management, configuration standardization, vulnerability remediation, and network change governance.
Strong incident-management and root-cause-analysis skills.
Ability to communicate technical architecture and tradeoffs to engineering, operations, leadership, and customers.
Minimum experience/education pathway: 8 years of relevant experience; or a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Hardware Engineering, or a related field and 4 years of relevant experience; or a master's degree in one of those fields and 2 years of relevant experience.
Demonstrated knowledge or experience in cloud architecture, including designing scalable, reliable, and performant cloud services.
Demonstrated experience securing enterprise networks with modern security controls and monitoring tools.
Demonstrated knowledge or ability in vendor management, including communicating with vendors, monitoring service levels, and partnering to resolve issues.

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience/education pathway: 9 years of relevant experience; or a bachelor's degree in a related field and 5 years of relevant experience; or a master's degree in a related field and 3 years of relevant experience; or a doctorate in a related field and 1 year of relevant experience.
OCI, AWS, or similar cloud associate certification within six months of hire.

Responsibilities

Design and develop advanced network fabrics and systems for large-scale enterprise, data-center, or cloud networking environments; validate production networks and develop scaling strategies.
Participate in network solution architecture and design validation, identify risks, recommend mitigations, and coordinate with vendors and internal teams on hardware, firmware, software, and network-code requirements.
Develop operational playbooks and analyze network workflows to resolve issues and improve performance and efficiency.
Design and build automation-framework modules; automate network tasks in production and lab environments; create and maintain scripts, dashboards, telemetry, and alerting systems; extend infrastructure pipelines and tools for new services.
Develop and lead test strategies and test cases, improve post-incident validation, review and present network changes to change-management boards, conduct pre-production validation, and prepare audit evidence for GRC requirements.
Maintain network monitoring and SLO-based metrics, collaborate with monitoring and SRE teams to improve detection, participate in support rotations and incident response, and develop tools for frontline support teams.
Coordinate test and deployment milestones, mentor junior engineers, provide subject-matter guidance, engage with customers on technical escalations, and contribute to root-cause analysis documentation.
Contribute to roadmap and architecture discussions and coordinate with vendors and internal teams to resolve networking standards misalignment.
Analyze network performance metrics and capacity data, identify inefficiencies, and plan for anticipated infrastructure growth.
Manage work, timelines, priorities, and deliverables; collaborate across teams and stakeholders; address technical problems, share knowledge, pursue continuous learning, and recommend process improvements.