Oracle

Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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2 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own component architecture, implementation decisions, milestones, delivery, and production readiness.
  • Build high-performance packet-processing, network virtualization, forwarding, policy, and acceleration data paths.
  • Define interfaces and coordinate integration across networking, storage, firmware, and hardware partners.
  • Benchmark and optimize throughput, tail latency, CPU utilization, memory efficiency, and behavior under resource pressure.
  • Evaluate storage I/O, backpressure, correctness, failure handling, compatibility, and recovery implications.
  • Develop instrumentation, fault handling, qualification, upgrade behavior, production support, and cross-layer debugging practices.
  • Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, establish tests and performance regression checks, and guide feature owners.
  • Validate AI-assisted work and improve coding, testing, debugging, and documentation practices.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in systems or infrastructure software, including substantial hands-on high-performance networking data-plane development.
  • Demonstrated ownership of substantial component architecture and delivery from broad requirements through production.
  • Deep experience with packet-processing systems, network virtualization, forwarding, encapsulation, and traffic management.
  • Strong C or C++ proficiency and Linux systems knowledge, including concurrency, memory management, multicore processing, and performance profiling.
  • Familiarity with storage architectures and data paths, including evaluating storage performance and failure handling.
  • Ability to diagnose complex correctness and performance issues across software layers using measurements and repeatable experiments.
  • Experience defining interfaces, coordinating technical dependencies, and owning component performance and operational readiness.
  • Clear design communication and experience mentoring engineers through reviews, implementation, and debugging.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience includes DPDK or comparable user-space frameworks, virtual switching, connection tracking, policy enforcement, offload implementation, DPUs, SmartNICs, AMD Pensando, NVIDIA BlueField/DOCA, P4, storage development, block storage, NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics, RDMA, storage virtualization, PCIe, DMA, SR-IOV, IOMMU, zero-copy techniques, hardware co-design, staged deployments, fault injection, or upgrade compatibility.

Benefits

  • US hiring range is $114,600 to $234,600 per annum, with potential bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, AD&D, flexible spending, commuter, parking, and voluntary insurance benefits are offered.
  • 401(k) savings and investment plan with company match, employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, and group legal benefits are offered.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance are provided.
  • US-based employees complete identity verification involving biometric information, with accommodations potentially available following individualized assessment.

Tech Stack

CC++LinuxOracle 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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