Senior Principal Software Engineer, Storage

OCI (Oracle Cloud) AI Infrastructure Innovation team is inventing the next generation of storage technologies. You will lead architecture and hands-on development across key layers: distributed processing, transactions, consensus, and storage engines. If you thrive at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, database internals, and cloud platforms, this role offers the opportunity to advance the state of the art.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end architecture, system design, and implementation for distributed storage platforms.
• Innovate on query processing, transaction, and IO performance, and work across different components - query planning/optimization, distributed execution engine, index and storage engine.
• Develop production-grade, high-performance software features with rigorous durability, correctness, observability, and security.
• Define performance goals and success metrics; design benchmarks and conduct large-scale experiments to validate throughput and latency.
• Define consistency, replication, and recovery strategies.
• Collaborate across storage, networking, compute, and control-plane teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions on OCI.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical leadership and reviews, and influence multi-year roadmap and technical standards.

Qualifications:

• Required: Deep expertise in distributed systems with hands-on delivery of large-scale, fault-tolerant, strongly consistent services.
• Experience building distributed execution engines.
• Proven ability to design for global scale: sharding/partitioning, placement policies, rebalancing, and multi-region replication.
• Strong software engineering background with performance profiling, correctness testing, and rigorous code quality.
• Cloud architecture experience on a major public cloud, including observability, orchestration, and incident response.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; proven technical leadership and mentoring.
• Preferred: Familiarity with high-performance IO paths; understanding of cross-region networking and latency trade-offs.
• Strong foundation in consensus and transactions.
• Expertise with observability at scale: tracing, metrics, logs, eBPF/perf, chaos/failure testing, and SLO-driven operations.
• Knowledge of AI/HPC workload patterns and their implications for storage, query processing, and consistency models.

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 $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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:

• 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

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 - IC5