Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure

🏢 Oracle
📍 Nashville, United StatesFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 3w ago🔄 Updated: 3w ago
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As a Principal Engineer on the Observability & Supervision team within TSO/AOCI, you will be instrumental in building Kilt, the platform that underpins OCI services. This role focuses on core platform capabilities, enabling service teams to concentrate on their products rather than operational overhead. You will design and develop real-time distributed systems with strict latency budgets, focusing on collecting metrics and logs, evaluating system health, escalating issues, and implementing automated recovery actions. The team values engineers passionate about system failure analysis, comfortable designing distributed control loops, reasoning about performance and correctness at scale, and owning components from design to production. You will work in a small, autonomous team with motivated, diverse individuals.
Required Skills
Information Technology
Distributed SystemsSolution ArchitectureScalabilityData PipelinesData ReplicationKPI ReportingOpenTelemetryDashboardsAlertingDebuggingIncident ManagementInfrastructure as Code
Other
elasticityhigh-throughputfault toleranceredundancyfailovernetwork partitionsload-sheddingthrottlingrate-limitingSLOsfault injectiondata synchronizationsecurity controlstechnical discussion
Finance, Legal & Governance
Tax Compliance
Productivity & Workplace Tools
RPA
Business, Sales & Management
Change ManagementMentoring
🎁 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 (13-18 days annually); 11 paid holidays; Paid sick leave (72 hours annually); Paid parental leave; Adoption assistance; Employee Stock Purchase Plan; Financial planning and group legal; Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.
Requirements
Leads development and architecting of scalable, elastic distributed systems. Optimizes code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads. Designs fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions, applying load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting. Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; and designs complex validation, replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability. Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness. Implements robust security controls, executes remediation, maintains compliance documentation, and develops IaC and automation that enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks within change-management plans.
Description

As part of the TSO/AOCI organization, our mission is to build Kilt, the platform on which OCI services are built, deployed, and operated across every region. We are investing in core platform capabilities that let service teams focus on their product rather than on the undifferentiated work of running it at scale, and we are doing it with a small group of engineers concentrated on high-leverage, low-level systems.

 

Within Kilt, the Observability & Supervision team owns how the platform sees itself and reacts. We build the systems that collect metrics and logs from every host and service, evaluate that signal against what healthy is supposed to look like, escalate to the right owner with the right context, and increasingly act on their own, whether that means scaling capacity, triggering recovery, or adjusting behavior based on the live state of upstream dependencies. This is real-time distributed systems work with strict latency budgets, where a decision has to be both fast and correct under partial information, because a wrong action taken across a fleet is worse than no action at all.

 

For this role, we are looking for engineers with a passion for understanding how systems fail, not only how they work. You should be comfortable designing distributed control loops, reasoning about performance and correctness at scale, and owning a component from design through production operation. You should value simplicity, be direct in technical discussion, and be excited by problems where the answer is not yet known.

 

We are a small, growing team with broad ownership and real autonomy. You will work with motivated, diverse people who care about doing things well, and you will have the support to do your best work in a workplace where you belong.

Leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems. Defines and enforces scalability requirements for owned components; optimizes code and data paths for high‑throughput, hyper‑scale workloads; and leverages data plane platforms for large‑scale retrieval, storage, and processing. Designs fault‑tolerant, in‑service‑upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions, applying load‑shedding, throttling, and rate‑limiting to handle network unreliability while meeting SLOs. Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; and designs complex validation (fault injection, brownouts), replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability. Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness. Implements robust security controls, executes remediation, maintains compliance documentation, and develops IaC and automation that enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks within change‑management plans.

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