Oracle

Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for hyperscale workloads.
  • Design fault-tolerant and highly available systems with redundancy, replication, failover, load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting.
  • Define scalability requirements, optimize performance, and establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Design performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing and implement replication and synchronization mechanisms.
  • Diagnose production issues, guide incident response and root cause analysis, and ensure operational readiness.
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code and automation for safe patching, updates, upgrades, and rollbacks.
  • Implement encryption, access controls, security remediation, and compliance practices for multi-tenant environments.
  • Manage moderately complex initiatives and collaborate with teams and stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.
  • Coach and mentor junior engineers, support talent development, and participate in candidate interviews and hiring recommendations.
  • Identify improvements to processes, workflows, and team effectiveness.

Requirements

  • Principal-level software engineering experience is indicated by the Principal Software Engineer title and IC4 career level.
  • Experience designing scalable, elastic, distributed, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems is required.
  • Ability to work with distributed state management, data-plane platforms, replication, synchronization, observability, and resilience mechanisms is required.
  • Experience with production troubleshooting, incident response, root cause analysis, operational readiness, and in-service maintenance is required.
  • Knowledge of encryption, access controls, security remediation, compliance, and multi-tenant environments is required.
  • Experience developing infrastructure-as-code and cloud infrastructure automation for patching, upgrades, and rollbacks is required.
  • Ability to manage moderately complex initiatives, provide technical oversight, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and contribute to hiring is required.

Benefits

  • U.S. base salary range of $114,600 to $234,600 per annum, with possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental life insurance.
  • Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
  • Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
  • 401(k) savings and investment plan with company match.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial planning, group legal, and voluntary insurance benefits.
  • Applications are generally accepted for at least three calendar days or while the role remains posted.

Tech Stack

Oracle Cloud

Categories

Oracle

About Oracle

10,000+ employees

Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.

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