Senior Principal Software Engineer

🏢 Oracle
📍 Seattle, United StatesFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 3mo ago🔄 Updated: 3mo ago
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As a Lead member of the Block Storage Data plane team, you will own the software design and development for multiple core components and features on the core I/O path of the Block Storage Service. You will be a strong programmer and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems and design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. We’re looking for hands-on senior engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services. As a lead engineer, you will own the software design and development for major components of the Block Storage Service Infrastructure. You will be technically leading projects with a set of other engineers, while also mentoring them. You should be both a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the data plane stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions.
Required Skills
Information Technology
○C++○Python○Data Structures○Algorithms○IT Infrastructure○Distributed Systems○TCP/IP○REST API○Debugging○Performance Testing
Other
○multi-threading○I/O paths
Nice to have:
Business, Sales & Management
○Agile
🎁 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, capped at 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
10+ years of experience in delivering large-scale, highly available distributed systems and infrastructure services. Demonstrated technical leadership including driving architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-team technical initiatives. Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, production-grade distributed services at scale. Extensive experience with systems design and developing clean code in C++ and scripting languages like Python. Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi-threading, I/O paths, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals. Strong understanding of block storage systems and distributed persistence technologies. Familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures. Experience building and operating modern CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment workflows for large-scale distributed systems. Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
Description

As a Lead member of the Block Storage Data plane team, you will own the software design and development for multiple core components and features on the core I/O path of the Block Storage Service. It would be best if you were a strong programmer and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems and design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

We’re looking for hands-on senior engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services. As a lead engineer, you will own the software design and development for major components of the Block Storage Service Infrastructure. You will be technically leading projects with a set of other engineers, while also mentoring them. You should be both a rock solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the data plane stack and low level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years' experience delivering large scale, highly available distributed systems and infrastructure services.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership, including driving architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-team technical initiatives.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, production-grade distributed services at scale.
  • Extensive experience with systems design and developing clean code in C++ and scripting languages such as Python, etc.
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi-threading, I/O paths, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Strong understanding of block storage systems and distributed persistence technologies.
  • Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
  • Experience building and operating modern CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment workflows for large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
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