Principal Software Developer

Oracle•Austin, TX

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more. As are part of Technical Strategy Oversight team (TSO) within OCI, our mission is to maximize customer choice and transparency while delivering high-value cloud solutions. We are at the strategic center of OCI’s most ambitious projects—architecting and delivering next-generation platforms and frameworks to empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services. What You’ll Be Building and Leading End-to-End Solutions: Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale. Foundational Frameworks: Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most demanding workloads. Performance at Scale: Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure. Strategic Innovation: Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps. Why Join Us? Industry Impact: Shape the direction and standards of the global public cloud by leading initiatives with large-scale customer and organizational impact. Personal Growth: Accelerate your career at the intersection of technical and strategic leadership, with opportunities to influence OCI's top priorities and outcomes. Collaborative Leadership: Partner with and mentor diverse, world-class engineering teams while enjoying autonomy and strong executive support. Culture of Excellence: Help foster an inclusive, high-performance workplace where innovators of all backgrounds can thrive, drive change, and deliver excellence.

Requirements

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
More than 6 years’ of experience delivering distributed, mission-critical cloud services at large scale.
Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
Cloud platform expertise (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Python, Java), DevOps & automation, networking, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), security, virtualization, database management, and understanding concepts like Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
Comfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environments.
Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes.
Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Rust programming language is a plus
Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
Work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments is a plus
Demonstrates strong mentorship abilities

Responsibilities

Deliver Cloud solutions for one of the two new OCI services: Key value store is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service. It delivers fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability, automatically handling infrastructure management, capacity provisioning, security, and backups. It is designed to support high-volume, real-time workloads, consistently providing single-digit millisecond latency for both reads and writes, regardless of scale.
A journaling service that reliably and efficiently records sequential, immutable logs (journal entries) of operations or transactions, with architecture designed to support increases in workload (scalability), while consistently delivering very fast response times for both recording and retrieving journal entries (low latency).
Envision, collaborate with Architects and drive the software design and development for new major data-plane components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.
Define the foundations for the next generation of OCI data-planes, making deep architectural changes calls as an outstanding builder and technical leader with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects.
Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures.
Perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
Work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to junior team members.
Balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements.
Understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance