Principal Software Development Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

11d•$114,600 - $234,600•Onsite

About The Position

Oracle is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for an onsite role in Nashville, Tennessee, with relocation assistance available. This senior individual-contributor position focuses on designing, building, and operating foundational systems for a highly available, durable, globally distributed object storage service. The engineer will solve complex distributed-systems problems at scale and set technical direction across critical storage-platform capabilities. The role works with engineers across storage, networking, security, control plane, and observability to deliver resilient systems. It also involves leading cross-team technical initiatives, improving service reliability, resolving production issues, developing operational tooling and observability, embedding secure-by-design practices, and establishing engineering standards through reviews, mentorship, and written communication.

Requirements

Strong software engineering experience in Java or a similar programming language, including designing, developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining production-quality services.
Deep understanding of object-oriented programming principles, including abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and appropriate use of common design patterns.
Experience designing clean, extensible APIs and service interfaces, emphasizing maintainability, testability, backward compatibility, and operational safety.
Demonstrated experience designing and building distributed systems operating across multiple hosts, availability domains, or regions.
Strong knowledge of distributed-systems concepts, including replication, consistency, consensus, partition tolerance, leader election, idempotency, retries, failure handling, and eventual consistency.
Experience designing systems for high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and data durability.
Experience with concurrent and multithreaded programming, performance analysis, memory management, and diagnosing latency or throughput bottlenecks in Java services.
Proficiency with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, including tests for failure scenarios and distributed-system edge cases.
Experience with observability tools and practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and production debugging.
Ability to write clear technical design documents, evaluate architectural tradeoffs, and lead design reviews for complex services.
Strong collaboration skills and experience partnering with engineering, security, networking, and operations teams.
Proven ability to mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and provide technical leadership without direct people-management responsibility.

Nice To Haves

Experience with object storage systems, distributed databases, file systems, or other large-scale data platforms.
Knowledge of storage-system concepts such as metadata management, object lifecycle operations, data placement, replication or erasure coding, and recovery from hardware or infrastructure failures.
Experience designing systems that span multiple regions or availability domains.
Experience operating services with demanding availability, durability, latency, or throughput requirements.
Familiarity with RESTful APIs, asynchronous processing, message queues, and event-driven architectures.
Experience with containerized environments, cloud infrastructure, and automated deployment pipelines.
Knowledge of cloud-service security practices, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure data handling.

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver core object-storage infrastructure, including metadata, data placement, replication, lifecycle management, and durability workflows.
Lead the design of distributed systems that provide availability, consistency, performance, and operational simplicity at scale.
Improve reliability through fault isolation, automated remediation, disaster recovery design, capacity planning, and rigorous operational practices.
Drive technical strategy for complex cross-team initiatives and influence architecture and execution beyond the immediate team.
Investigate and resolve challenging production issues, using systems expertise to prevent recurrence.
Build tooling, automation, and observability to make the service easier to operate, diagnose, and evolve.
Partner with security and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design practices into storage infrastructure.
Establish engineering standards through design reviews, technical mentorship, and clear written communication.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
Life insurance and AD&D.
Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
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 and position classification.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a 112-hour maximum.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Financial planning and group legal benefits.
Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
Relocation assistance.
May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.