Oracle

Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

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2 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$97k - $306k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Envision, design, and drive development of new major OCI data-plane components and a high-scale key-value store.
  • Define the foundations and architectural evolution of next-generation cloud data planes.
  • Perform software development, operating-system-level design, debugging, prototyping, code reviews, and project bootstrapping.
  • Provide strategic technical guidance to senior leadership and drive alignment across organization-wide initiatives.
  • Collaborate with executives, architects, engineering managers, TPMs, and geographically distributed teams.
  • Define and improve standard engineering practices, service automation, instrumentation, operational excellence, and customer-focused quality.
  • Mentor and guide junior team members and help align engineers with shared objectives.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
  • Strong experience with C and C++, with willingness to work on Rust.
  • Strong experience building high-concurrency systems and low-level, performance-critical software and services.
  • Experience with high-performance distributed storage, write-ahead logging, B-tree or LSM-tree indexing, data partitioning/sharding, Raft, Paxos or Multi-Paxos, MVCC, and distributed transactions.
  • Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead large cloud-scale projects and provide strategic technical guidance.
  • Significant experience in startup or fast-paced enterprise technology environments.
  • Strong mentorship, communication, organization, interpersonal, analytical, and research abilities.
  • Ability to work in complex, rapidly evolving software development environments, learn technologies quickly, and improve cross-team processes.
  • Experience working with geographically distributed teams.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
  • Short- and long-term disability, 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.
  • Flexible or accrued vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
  • Adoption assistance, employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, group legal benefits, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
  • US-based employees complete identity verification involving collection and processing of biometric information, with accommodations available following an individualized assessment.

Tech Stack

CC++Oracle CloudRust

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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