Oracle

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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

$137k - $306k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own subsystem architecture, component contracts, technical decisions, and end-to-end outcomes across multiple teams.
  • Evaluate host, DPU software, firmware, and hardware partitioning, including queueing, memory ownership, acceleration, and recovery.
  • Lead cross-team delivery, decompose work, resolve integration risks, and personally implement or debug critical paths.
  • Establish throughput, tail-latency, resource-efficiency, storage I/O, and packet-processing performance targets.
  • Connect storage and networking architecture across I/O processing, transport, ordering, buffering, backpressure, and recovery.
  • Lead subsystem qualification, technical readiness reviews, observability, fault isolation, safe upgrades, and production rollout.
  • Mentor engineers and develop component owners’ architectural and systems-debugging judgment.
  • Guide validated and accountable use of AI practices across subsystem engineering work.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in systems or infrastructure software, including substantial hands-on experience with high-performance storage or networking data paths.
  • Demonstrated ownership of a major subsystem spanning multiple components and engineering teams from ambiguous requirements through production integration.
  • Deep expertise in storage or networking data-path architecture, implementation, and optimization.
  • Strong hands-on C or C++ expertise and deep knowledge of Linux, synchronization, memory management, multicore architectures, and performance analysis.
  • Working familiarity with the complementary storage or networking domain and the ability to evaluate cross-domain performance and failure interactions.
  • Experience defining component boundaries and contracts, establishing performance budgets, and resolving cross-component correctness and reliability issues.
  • A record of driving technical alignment and delivery across teams while remaining involved in implementation and difficult debugging.
  • Ability to explain complex architectural decisions and develop engineers into effective component owners.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience includes DPUs, SmartNICs, AMD Pensando, NVIDIA BlueField, DOCA, P4, DPDK, storage I/O pipelines, block storage, NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics, RDMA, storage virtualization, PCIe, DMA, SR-IOV, IOMMU, zero-copy techniques, fleet qualification, failure recovery, or upgrade compatibility.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage, 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 auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.

Tech Stack

CC++LinuxOracle Cloud

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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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