Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

An engineer on the Strategic Customer Engineering team plays a critical role in aligning technical details across various service teams, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and driving end-to-end execution of complex projects. This engineer will design, coordinate, and execute technical solutions that have huge impact to our customer experience and scalability. Understanding various cloud technologies and technical trade-offs, the ideal candidate will be an exceptionally strong communicator, both written and verbally, have a well-rounded technical background, and come with a history of leading large-scale projects end-to-end. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives. True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs. We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing [email protected] or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States. Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
8+ years distributed cloud engineering experience in a software development environment
Development experience in Java/C++/C# as well as scripting languages.
Experience in scripting and automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and/or Kubernetes.
Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools for managing distributed systems.
Strong Linux skills with hands-on experience in Oracle Linux/RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions, including system administration, package management, shell scripting, and performance optimization.
Experience working with other cloud platform teams and accommodating requirements from those teams (compute, networking, storage, identity).
Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and best practices.
Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues and drive resolution in a fast-paced environment.
Written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear, concise manner to all audiences
Strong documentation skills with experience documenting infrastructure designs, configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps to facilitate knowledge sharing, ensure maintainability, and enhance team collaboration.
7 years of software engineering or related experience.

Nice To Haves

Strengths in internetworking, cloud infrastructure, Linux system internals, workflow scalability, and organizational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

Ensuring that our cloud infrastructure solutions are designed and built with the highest level of scalability in mind.
Partnering with other development teams responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing solutions within a distributed computing environment that lead to the best customer experience.
Leading initiatives across engineering, operations, and leadership with minimal supervision.
Partner with customer engineering leadership and OCI engineering leadership to ensure the success of your customers.
Take ownership of problems and work to identify solutions.
Ability to think through the solution and identify/document potential issues impacting your customers.
Work with engineering teams to design infrastructure components such as cloud resources, distributed computing systems, and data storage solutions to support your customer's workflows.
Troubleshoot infrastructure performance, scalability, and reliability issues and implement solutions to mitigate risks and minimize downtime.
Document infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and ensure maintainability.