Senior Principal Software Developer - OCI Technical Strategy & Oversight Org - Networking Data Plane, C/C++, DPU, DPDK, RDMA

Oracle • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Senior Principal Software Engineer (IC5) – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Build the Future of Cloud at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we enable mission-critical applications
for the world’s top enterprises, delivering hyper-scale, secure, multi-tenant
cloud services across 50+ global regions. As leaders in cloud innovation, OCI is
driving transformation with dedicated, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge computing
deployments—redefining what's possible for the cloud ecosystem.

About Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO)
Within TSO, our mission is to maximize customer choice and transparency while
delivering high-value cloud solutions. We are at the strategic center of OCI’s
most ambitious projects—architecting and delivering next-generation platforms
and frameworks to empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services.

What You’ll Be Building and Leading

End-to-End Solutions: Provide technical leadership in designing,
architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from
inception to production at global scale.
Foundational Frameworks: Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes
and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most
demanding workloads.
Performance at Scale: Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new
benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.
Strategic Innovation: Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane
components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational
performance leaps.

Why Join Us?

Industry Impact: Shape the direction and standards of the global public cloud
by leading initiatives with large-scale customer and organizational impact.
Personal Growth: Accelerate your career at the intersection of technical and
strategic leadership, with opportunities to influence OCI's top priorities
and outcomes.
Collaborative Leadership: Partner with and mentor diverse, world-class
engineering teams while enjoying autonomy and strong executive support.
Culture of Excellence: Help foster an inclusive, high-performance workplace
where innovators of all backgrounds can thrive, drive change, and deliver
excellence.

Who We’re Looking For
We’re seeking visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing
at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud. As a
recognized expert, you will deliver complex solutions for OCI’s networking and
storage needs, mentor senior engineers, drive strategy, and be responsible for
cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services. You are
respected for providing technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving
operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the
organization. Your influence reaches across product, engineering, and
operational teams, and you routinely collaborate with executive leadership to
set and realize long-term strategy.

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and
expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And
with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that
promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company
leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why
we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with
competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life
insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to
their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the
employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for
a disability at any point, let us know by emailing
[email protected] [[email protected]] or by
calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability
and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and
conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Requirements

• Visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud.
• Recognized expert
• Respected for providing technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the organization.
• Influence reaches across product, engineering, and operational teams

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.
• Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most demanding workloads.
• Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.
• Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps.
• Deliver complex solutions for OCI’s networking and storage needs
• Mentor senior engineers
• Drive strategy
• Responsible for cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services
• Providing technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the organization.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to set and realize long-term strategy.

Benefits

• competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options
• encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees