Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Network Modeling and Control team builds software to model physical networks and enable their configuration, expansion, and safe operation. The team’s services translate infrastructure designs into working networks and coordinate changes as capacity grows, supporting the reliable, high-performance networks used by GPU infrastructure and AI training and inference.

This hands-on individual contributor role focuses on designing, building, and operating distributed services for network modeling, configuration, and lifecycle operations across OCI’s AI and cloud infrastructure. The engineer will own significant features and service components, contribute to architectural decisions, lead projects from design through production, and mentor engineers through collaborative development. The work involves distributed systems challenges such as maintaining consistent network state, coordinating concurrent changes, recovering from partial failures, and automating changes to protect availability.

The position collaborates with network engineering, infrastructure delivery, operations, and adjacent software teams. It includes operational support and incident investigation, with production findings used to improve reliability and reduce recurring failures and manual work.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of software engineering experience, including experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills and a record of delivering reliable production software.
• Solid understanding of concurrency, consistency, fault tolerance, API design, and persistent state.
• Experience owning significant features or service components throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to evaluate design tradeoffs, troubleshoot complex issues, and communicate technical decisions clearly.
• Experience collaborating across teams and delivering projects with dependencies.
• Sound judgment about testing, reliability, operational readiness, and safe infrastructure changes.

Nice To Haves

• Infrastructure software supporting AI/ML platforms, GPU clusters, or large-scale compute environments.
• Network automation, network modeling, configuration management, or infrastructure control systems.
• Workflow orchestration, reconciliation, or scheduling across distributed resources.
• Model-based testing, formal methods, or other techniques for verifying complex state transitions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate distributed services supporting network modeling, configuration, and lifecycle operations across OCI’s AI and cloud infrastructure.
• Extend network models, APIs, and automation to support expanding GPU infrastructure and new network architectures.
• Build reliable workflows for concurrent and long-running changes, including state management, retries, recovery, and rollback.
• Develop validation, testing, observability, and rollout mechanisms that make network changes safer.
• Diagnose and resolve bottlenecks in service performance, data access, and change execution.
• Partner with network engineering, infrastructure delivery, operations, and adjacent software teams to deliver capabilities across service boundaries.
• Independently lead substantial projects from requirements and technical design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Participate in operational support and incident investigations, turning findings into improvements that reduce recurring failures and manual work.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and collaborative problem solving.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short-term and long-term disability
• 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
• Paid time off, including flexible or accrued vacation depending on employee eligibility
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal benefits
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
• Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed