Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Location: (onsite)

• Nashville, TN (5 X Week)

• Broomfield, CO (3 X Week)

• Austin, TX (3 X Week)

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of compute and media-focused cloud services for the Media and Entertainment industry.

We are looking for a highly skilled full-stack or backend cloud engineer experienced with at least one major public cloud platform.

In this role, you will architect and build scalable, performant, and secure compute services that power next-generation media production and distribution workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Compute service design and scaling: Design and develop cloud-based compute services for media workloads with focus on scalability, elasticity, and cost efficiency.

• High-performance architecture: Optimize systems for intensive compute use cases such as rendering, transcoding, and virtual workstation workloads.

• Cloud deployment and management: Deploy and manage workloads on OCI or other public clouds, leveraging container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure as code.

• System integration: Build integrations across storage, compute, and networking layers to support complete production pipelines in the cloud.

• Performance optimization: Monitor, tune, and enhance performance for low latency, throughput, and resource utilization.

• Reliability and automation: Implement CI/CD pipelines, observability, and automated scaling for production environments.

• Security and compliance: Ensure compliance and security best practices for compute and media services, including encryption, authentication, and network isolation.

• Cross-team collaboration: Partner with product, networking, and operations teams to deliver end-to-end solutions that meet customer and industry requirements.

• Innovation: Evaluate emerging compute technologies, virtualization techniques, and cloud orchestration tools to drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Basic Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience.

Experience:

• 8+ years of professional experience building and deploying large-scale distributed systems or cloud services.

• Strong hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud platform (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in Python, Java, or Go for backend development.

• Strong understanding of cloud compute architecture, VM and container orchestration, and autoscaling mechanisms.

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent).

• Familiarity with networking fundamentals, load balancing, and cloud security practices.

• Knowledge of storage integration (block and object storage) for media and compute workloads.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and production monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.).

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with media production or rendering workloads (e.g., VFX, animation, broadcast).

• Understanding of virtual GPU (vGPU) or GPU-enabled compute workloads.

• Familiarity with virtual workstation or remote visualization environments.

• Knowledge of serverless compute and hybrid cloud deployment patterns.

• Experience designing for multi-tenant, high-availability compute platforms.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

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