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 high-throughput, hyperscale workloads.
  • Define scalability requirements, optimize system performance, and leverage distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
  • Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, failover, load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting.
  • Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and testing strategies for reliability and performance.
  • Diagnose production issues, guide incident response and root cause analysis, and ensure operational readiness.
  • Implement encryption, access controls, security remediation, compliance documentation, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud automation.
  • Enable safe in-service maintenance, patching, updates, upgrades, and rollbacks with minimal customer impact.
  • Manage moderately complex initiatives and provide technical oversight across timelines, resources, and deliverables.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver solutions aligned with business and customer needs.
  • Coach and mentor junior engineers, document problem-solving practices, improve team workflows, and support candidate interviews and hiring recommendations.

Requirements

  • Principal-level software engineering experience designing and architecting scalable distributed systems for hyperscale workloads.
  • Experience with fault tolerance, high availability, replication, failover, synchronization, observability, resilience, and performance engineering.
  • Experience with production troubleshooting, incident response, root cause analysis, and operational readiness.
  • Experience implementing security, encryption, access controls, compliance, infrastructure-as-code, and automation for cloud environments.
  • Ability to lead moderately complex initiatives, provide technical oversight, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.
  • Ability to design and implement performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing.

Benefits

  • Oracle offers medical, dental, vision, disability, life, AD&D, flexible spending, commuter and parking benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, an employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, group legal benefits, voluntary insurance, and community volunteer programs.
  • The posting states that the role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral; compensation figures are captured separately.
  • The role generally accepts applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or while the position 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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