Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

🏢 Oracle
📍 Nashville, United StatesFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 3w ago🔄 Updated: 3w ago
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This role is for a Lead Principal Software Engineer focusing on Core Infrastructure within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The position involves solving foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems with a broad impact across OCI. The engineer will help shape a new team and create platforms enabling OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently at scale. Key responsibilities include leading the architecture of highly scalable, resilient distributed systems, mentoring engineering teams, and driving performance optimization, fault tolerance, and reliability. The role also requires architecting security, compliance, IaC, and automated change-management solutions for safe and reliable cloud operations. The ideal candidate will have experience in system design, performance optimization, fault tolerance, reliability engineering, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
Required Skills
Information Technology
Distributed SystemsCloud ArchitectureOrchestrationCloud SecurityInfrastructure as CodeSystem DesignPerformance OptimizationReliability EngineeringIncident Response
Engineering, Construction & Trades
Automation
Finance, Legal & Governance
Tax Compliance
Business, Sales & Management
Change ManagementMentoring
Other
fault toleranceTLA+data-driven solutions
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Root Cause AnalysisLeadershipProblem Solving
Design, Content & Media
Content Strategy
🎁 Benefits & Perks
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion; Short term disability and long term disability; Life insurance and AD&D; Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child); Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts; Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits; 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match; Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.; 11 paid holidays; Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.; Paid parental leave; Adoption assistance; Employee Stock Purchase Plan; Financial planning and group legal; Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.
Requirements
Leads the architecture of highly scalable, resilient distributed systems and mentors engineering teams. Drives performance optimization, elasticity, data-plane innovation, fault tolerance, and SLO-based reliability. Establishes advanced observability, correctness, replication, and operational standards while leading complex incident resolution and RCAs. Architects security, compliance, IaC, and automated change-management solutions for safe, reliable cloud operations at scale.
Description

This is an opportunity to solve foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems with broad impact across OCI. We are hiring Senior Principal engineers and leaders who are excited by large-scale cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, operational automation, and building trustworthy systems. You will help shape a new team and create the platforms that enable OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently at unprecedented scale.

Leads the architecture of highly scalable, resilient distributed systems and mentors engineering teams. Drives performance optimization, elasticity, data-plane innovation, fault tolerance, and SLO-based reliability. Establishes advanced observability, correctness, replication, and operational standards while leading complex incident resolution and RCAs. Architects security, compliance, IaC, and automated change-management solutions for safe, reliable cloud operations at scale.

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