Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Data Core organization, you will build and operate high performance networking and storage data path software for DPU accelerated systems. You will work across hardware, firmware interfaces, Linux, and cloud services to improve throughput, latency, reliability, and scale. This is a hands-on role for an engineer with deep networking data path experience who can turn performance measurements into effective designs and production software. You will lead complex technical work, contribute to engineering practices, and provide direction and mentorship to other engineers.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including substantial C or C++ development on Linux.
- Deep hands-on experience building or optimizing high performance networking data paths, including packet processing and hardware offload.
- Experience developing for a DPU or SmartNIC platform, such as AMD Pensando, NVIDIA BlueField, Intel SmartNIC, or comparable hardware.
- Working knowledge of storage virtualization, PCIe SR-IOV, and the NVMe and NVMe-oF protocol family.
- Ability to diagnose throughput and latency issues across software and hardware boundaries, and to improve performance on CPU and memory constrained systems.
- Experience using Go, Python, or another scripting language for development, testing, or operational tooling.
- Ability to lead complex work while contributing directly to implementation and debugging.
- A BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with P4 programming and pipelines.
- Experience with SPDK, NVMe drivers, RDMA, or NVMe-oF implementations.
- Experience with data encryption in transit or at rest, TCG Opal, or cryptographic hardware offload.
- Experience building and operating data path software at cloud scale.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate high performance networking and storage data path software for DPU accelerated systems.
- Work across hardware, firmware interfaces, Linux, and cloud services to improve throughput, latency, reliability, and scale.
- Turn performance measurements into effective designs and production software.
- Lead complex technical work.
- Contribute to engineering practices.
- Provide direction and mentorship to other engineers.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
Associate degree
