Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
About The Position
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on solving complex distributed systems problems, writing high-quality code, and owning services from design through production. The engineer works with engineers, product managers, and operators to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services customers depend on. The role designs and develops backend services, distributed systems, and workflow orchestration capabilities for OCI, emphasizing reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence. It contributes to architecture discussions, makes pragmatic technical decisions, and builds systems that are highly scalable, simple to operate, and easy to evolve. The Principal Engineer takes an active role in defining and evolving standard practices and procedures, provides technical leadership and mentorship, and collaborates across teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
Requirements
- Strong experience building backend services, large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or workflow orchestration platforms.
- Experience designing and operating systems that handle high volume, high availability, and complex failure scenarios.
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java or Python.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, and system design.
- Experience designing APIs, service contracts, asynchronous workflows, and production-ready software components.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerized services, CI/CD, observability, and operational practices.
- Ability to reason about reliability, latency, scalability, state transitions, retries, backpressure, and trade-offs.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative engineering mindset.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and operate production-grade cloud services.
- Build large-scale distributed systems with clear APIs, strong automation, and high availability.
- Develop highly scalable workflows for orchestration, automation, provisioning, and lifecycle management.
- Improve service reliability, observability, performance, and security at cloud scale.
- Reason about concurrency, state management, failure recovery, idempotency, latency, and throughput.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and operational readiness reviews.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive long-term fixes.
- Collaborate across teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
- Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through thoughtful technical leadership.
- Contribute to the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures.
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 and position
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits, including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
- Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
