Principal Software Development Engineer (OCI)
About The Position
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is redefining the cloud for the world’s largest enterprises. We operate with the agility and innovation of a startup while delivering the scale, security, and reliability expected from one of the world’s leading technology companies. OCI powers mission-critical workloads for customers globally, offering a comprehensive cloud platform built for high performance, distributed systems, and enterprise-grade reliability. Our engineering culture is grounded in OCI Values — emphasizing integrity, inclusion, innovation, customer focus, and operational excellence. We invest deeply in our people and foster an environment where diverse perspectives, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning drive breakthrough results. At OCI, you’ll work alongside exceptional engineers solving some of the most complex distributed systems challenges at cloud scale. The OCI Limits Team owns the foundational platform that manages service limits, quotas, and capacity governance across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The team enables customers and internal OCI services to scale reliably and securely by providing automated limit management, quota enforcement, and high-scale control plane integrations. We work closely with service teams across OCI to support rapid cloud growth, operational stability, and enterprise-grade resource governance. The organization operates highly distributed, mission-critical systems that directly impact customer onboarding, expansion, and cloud consumption experiences.
Requirements
- Deep experience in distributed systems.
- Deep experience in cloud infrastructure.
- Deep experience in large-scale service design.
- Hands-on technical leadership.
- Successfully designed and launched major platform features and services into production.
- Experience operating highly available systems at scale.
- Strong sense of ownership across the full software lifecycle — from architecture and development to operational excellence and long-term scalability.
- Comfortable driving initiatives independently.
- Comfortable mentoring engineers.
- Comfortable influencing technical direction across teams.
- Strong technical depth.
- Pragmatic decision-making.
- Excellent collaboration skills.
- Passion for building simple, reliable, and scalable systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and launch major platform features and services into production.
- Operate highly available systems at scale.
- Solve difficult infrastructure challenges.
- Drive initiatives independently.
- Mentor engineers.
- Influence technical direction across teams.
Benefits
- Flexible medical insurance
- Life insurance
- Retirement options
- Volunteer programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
