Senior Principal Software Engineer

Job Description Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission‑critical applications for top‑tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper‑scale, multi‑tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid, and multi‑cloud, edge computing, and more.

At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We’re embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as canonical implementation of core components for data planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating our expertise on building low‑level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI.

For this role, we are looking for technical leaders to build and deliver a key‑value store that supports billions of keys and millions of requests per second at sub‑millisecond latencies. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver a new OCI service from scratch and work with senior architects and leaders at OCI. You must be a self‑motivated engineer with passion and expertise in solving challenging system, data‑plane level and performance problems.

You should be a rock‑solid developer able to dive deep into low‑level systems, design broad distributed system interactions for high performance, high scale data‑planes. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives.

You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged. Responsibilities With your superb technical, research and analytical capabilities and demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively to delight our customers, you will envision, collaborate with executives for investment and drive the software design and development for new major data‑plane components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.

You will define the foundations for the next generation of OCI data‑planes, making deep architectural changes calls as an outstanding builder and technical leader with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects. You will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

You will be able to work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to junior team members. You can go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands‑on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements.

You’ve made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument your service. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus. Qualifications 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.

Provides strategic technical guidance to senior leadership, influencing org‑wide goals and driving alignment across initiatives. Strong experience with C/C++ and open to working on Rust. Strong experience with high‑concurrency systems.

Experience in low‑level and performance‑critical system level design and service development. Working experience with technologies such as high performance distributed storage, write‑ahead logging (WAL), indexing strategies (B‑tree, LSM tree), data partitioning/sharding, Raft, Paxos, or Multi‑Paxos for distributed consistency, transaction management (MVCC), distributed transactions, CAP theorem trade‑off. Contributor of open source or commercial database, such as RocksDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc, is a plus.

Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills. Comfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environments. Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross‑team processes.

Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies. Experience working with geographically distributed teams. Significant work experience in startups or fast‑paced enterprise technology development environments.

Demonstrates strong mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing teams while aligning engineers with shared objectives. Disclaimer Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client‑facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. Compensation & Benefits US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 - $306,400 per year.

May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.

Short‑term disability and long‑term disability. Life insurance and AD&D. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child).

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: Flexible vacation provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non‑overtime eligible) position.

Accrued vacation provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week.

Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 11 paid holidays. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year.

Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. Paid parental leave. Adoption assistance.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Financial planning and group legal. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.

Career Level IC5 Equal Employment Opportunity 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr