Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle•Reston, VA

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Software Engineer for its newly established Cloud Performance Organization. The team works to address service inefficiencies, reduce cloud expenses, improve customer experience, and ensure scalability. The position focuses on optimizing the performance of OCI’s critical components, internal tools, and applications while fostering a culture of performance engineering. It offers a greenfield opportunity to design and build cloud services from the ground up within a fast-growing organization working on new initiatives. The engineer leads the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads. The role includes designing fault-tolerant and highly available systems, establishing reliability and performance measures, and supporting operational readiness. It also implements security and compliance measures, infrastructure as code, and automation for safe patching, upgrades, and rollbacks. The role includes technical oversight, collaboration across teams, troubleshooting, mentoring, continuous improvement, and supporting hiring activities.

Responsibilities

Lead development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads.
Define scalability requirements, optimize performance, and leverage 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 support 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 change-management practices.
Manage moderately complex initiatives, 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.

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 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 benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral