Principal Network Developer

Oracle • Seattle, WA

2d

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 scope includes data center fabrics, edge networks, backbone and fiber metro networks, multi-cloud initiatives, operational support during build phases, and network and server rack additions, decommissions, and capacity expansions. The team also advances 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 requires deep knowledge of network protocols and programming skills to support automation at scale across infrastructure encompassing network devices and millions of connected servers.

This position leads moderately complex network projects and lifecycle programs, translating high-level architectures into detailed designs and coordinating technical milestones and engineering work. It provides technical guidance across teams, serves as a subject-matter expert and escalation point for complex network events, and drives systematic resolution and root cause analysis. The role also supports vendor and product-team coordination, network automation, validation, monitoring, reliability, performance, and capacity management.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of network protocols.
• Programming skills to support automation at scale.
• Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to design, deploy, operate, and validate large-scale network systems.
• Ability to lead moderately complex technical projects and coordinate engineering work.
• Ability to develop scripts and automation for complex network operations.
• Ability to analyze network issues, lead root cause analysis, and provide escalation support.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and coach or mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead network lifecycle management programs by defining objectives and delivery procedures, organizing technical milestones, and coordinating project work.
• Decompose high-level network architectures into detailed designs and lead the development of network solutions with complex interactions.
• Work with service teams to ensure network solutions are supported by appropriate monitoring and automation systems.
• Serve as a Tier 2 or specialized escalation point for network events, provide break-fix support, and drive systematic resolution and root cause analysis of complex issues.
• Develop scripts and automation for complex network tasks, and lead or contribute to network automation design and delivery projects.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to junior and senior technical staff.
• Collaborate with vendors, account managers, product teams, networking leadership, and project management teams to resolve operational issues and align technology with product and service requirements.
• Participate in RFQ/RFP development and may lead adoption of new vendor hardware.
• Design, develop, and validate scalable network systems; assess design risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Create playbooks for resolving network issues and analyze workflows to identify inefficiencies and scalable improvements.
• Build automation modules, scripts, dashboards, telemetry tools, alerting systems, and infrastructure pipeline or configuration-management extensions.
• Design test strategies and reusable test cases, improve post-incident validation, and lead team-level testing practices.
• Review and approve L1 and L2 network changes, present high-impact changes to change-management boards, and support pre-production validation and deployment readiness.
• Prepare audit documentation and test evidence for Governance, Risk, and Compliance processes.
• Work with monitoring and Site Reliability Engineering teams to define service-level-objective-based metrics and improve anomaly detection and alerting.
• Lead incident response during support rotations, coordinate cross-team resolution, and improve tools used by frontline support teams.
• Drive test and deployment milestones, lead technical customer escalations, produce root cause analysis documentation, and contribute to roadmap and architecture decisions.
• Analyze network performance metrics and forecast infrastructure needs using performance and capacity data.
• Coordinate moderately complex project tasks, timelines, deliverables, priorities, and work across projects.
• Identify and address moderately complex problems, escalate critical issues with assessments and potential solutions, and document problem-solving strategies.
• Pursue ongoing learning, stay current with industry trends, and foster knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Participate in candidate interviews, assess candidates, and provide hiring recommendations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Supplemental life insurance for employees and eligible family members.
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on employee eligibility.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal benefits.
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
• May be eligible for bonus and equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed