Oracle

Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, highly available automation services and host agents with typed, versioned APIs and rolling deployments.
  • Develop durable workflows with idempotency, safe retries, distributed locking, fencing, and failure recovery.
  • Build database infrastructure automation for provisioning, migration, maintenance, recovery, inventory, and coordinated fleet operations.
  • Modernize tooling through reviewed agent operations and workflows supporting region bootstrap, upgrades, rollback, availability, and data integrity.
  • Establish SLOs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, tracing, and runbooks while participating in on-call and incident investigations.
  • Implement least-privilege execution, authentication, authorization, secure communication, host validation, concurrency controls, and resource protections.
  • Drive automated testing for correctness, integration, concurrency, performance, and failure recovery.
  • Own complex initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation, validation, deployment, and production operation.
  • Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, improve engineering practices, and support technical interviews and assessments.

Requirements

  • Principal Software Engineer (IC4) scope with the ability to independently drive complex architecture and software initiatives.
  • Experience designing scalable, elastic, fault-tolerant distributed systems for high-throughput workloads.
  • Ability to develop reliable database, operating-system, infrastructure, and host automation capabilities.
  • Experience with production operations, observability, SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and operational readiness.
  • Knowledge of security controls including least privilege, authentication, authorization, secure communication, and compliance practices.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into milestones, manage dependencies and risks, and communicate technical tradeoffs.
  • Ability to collaborate across database, infrastructure, and security teams and mentor engineers.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; 401(k) with company match; paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, group legal, and voluntary insurance benefits.
  • The posting lists a U.S. hiring range of $114,600 to $234,600 per annum, with possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
  • U.S.-based employees complete identity verification involving collection and processing of biometric information, subject to applicable accommodations.

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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