Principal or Sr. Principal Software Engineer, OCI

Job Description
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We're seeking experienced and driven developers, experienced in Linux internals, virtualization and container technologies, to join a new Service Platform team within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This team is building a foundational platform that powers OCI services—from low-level execution runtimes and cluster management to application orchestration and advanced change management workflows. Our goal: to accelerate OCI's evolution into an autonomous cloud, boosting efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity.

As a member of this growing team, you'll play a key role in shaping innovative initiatives with broad impact across OCI. We're looking for engineers who thrive on solving deep technical challenges, enjoy pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and are eager to dive into complex systems to make them simpler, faster, and more reliable. If you're passionate about building high-performance software, value clean design at scale, and enjoy working in fast-paced, collaborative environments—this is your opportunity to make a difference.

Career Level - IC4/IC5/IC6

Responsibilities
Bring your strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help shape the next generation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Service Platform. In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build scalable, high-performance foundational platform services.
• Define and improve engineering best practices, development processes, and design standards.
• Design, implement, and maintain software components across the full development lifecycle.
• Contribute to debugging, performance tuning, and improving reliability of system-level software.
• Drive architectural and design decisions with broad impact across OCI.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficient in systems-level programming with one or more of the following: Rust, C/C++, and Go.
• Demonstrated leadership in making critical technical decisions and setting engineering vision.
• Knowledge of cluster networking and cloud networking.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, including kernel, driver development, and virtualization.
• Strong understanding of computer networking fundamentals (e.g., OSI model, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, subnets, gateways).
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality products through all stages of the software lifecycle.
• Experience developing high-performance, low-level systems.
• Familiarity with running and supporting production systems in mission-critical, live-service environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and excellent communication abilities.
• Experience designing architectures for high availability, scalability, and future flexibility across services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a technical lead on large-scale infrastructure projects and services.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience.

• Mastery of systems programming in Rust, C/ C++, or Go to build secure, performant, cloud-native components

• Networking Track:

• Extensive experience developing and operating services on public clouds such as Oracle Cloud, AWS, and Azure.

• Hands-on experience in cluster networking and cloud networking.

• Hands-on experience with eBPF for programmable kernel-level networking and security (e.g., via Cilium, Envoy)

• Systems Track:

• In-depth knowledge of Linux internals and virtualization technologies such as KVM, QEMU, LXC, libvirt, and cgroups.

• Expert-level Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to produce clear technical designs and documentation.
• Experience with highly distributed infrastructure and scalable service architectures.
• Proven experience mentoring and hiring, with a commitment to raising the technical bar across teams.

Qualifications
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 - $223,400 per year. 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:

• 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 - IC4

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