Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle•Reston, VA

22h•$114,600 - $234,600

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its newly established Cloud Performance Organization. The team focuses on addressing service inefficiencies, reducing cloud expenses, improving customer experience, and ensuring scalability by optimizing critical OCI components, internal tools, and applications and fostering a culture of performance engineering. This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new cloud services. The role leads the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads. It includes designing fault-tolerant, highly available systems with observability, testing, replication, and resilience mechanisms to meet SLOs; driving operational readiness and production troubleshooting; mentoring peers; and implementing security, compliance, infrastructure as code, and automation for safe patching, upgrades, and rollbacks. The position also manages moderately complex initiatives, collaborates across teams and stakeholders, resolves complex issues, develops technical skills, improves processes, and supports talent development through interviews, assessments, and hiring recommendations.

Responsibilities

Lead development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads.
Define scalability requirements, optimize performance, and use distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, failover, load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting.
Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to ensure reliability and performance.
Design performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing, and implement replication and synchronization for correctness and availability.
Diagnose production issues, guide incident response and root cause analysis, and ensure operational readiness.
Enable in-service maintenance and upgrades with minimal customer impact.
Mentor engineers in troubleshooting and operational practices.
Implement encryption, access controls, and security remediation for multi-tenant environments.
Ensure compliance with applicable standards and maintain required documentation.
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code and automation for cloud infrastructure.
Enable safe, repeatable patching, updates, and rollbacks through effective change-management practices.
Manage moderately complex initiatives, including prioritizing work, timelines, resources, and deliverables while providing technical oversight.
Collaborate across teams and stakeholders to align objectives and deliver solutions that meet business and customer needs.
Promote inclusive collaboration and diverse perspectives.
Analyze and resolve moderately complex issues, escalating critical concerns with clear assessments and recommended solutions.
Document and share effective problem-solving practices.
Stay current with industry trends and continuously develop technical skills.
Coach and mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing.
Identify and implement improvements to processes, workflows, and team effectiveness.
Evaluate outcomes and incorporate stakeholder feedback.
Support talent development through candidate interviews, assessments, and hiring recommendations.