Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental leave

Stock purchase plan

Volunteer programs

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville is seeking senior principal engineers to tackle foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability challenges at unprecedented scale. You will help shape a new team and build platforms enabling OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently.

You will lead architecture for scalable, resilient systems, drive performance and security, and mentor multiple teams across incident response, automation, and change management while shaping technical

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the architecture of highly scalable, elastic distributed systems.
• Identify performance bottlenecks, define scalability requirements, and optimize systems for hyperscale workloads.
• Drive innovation in distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
• Architect fault-tolerant systems with redundancy, replication, and resilience mechanisms.
• Establish SLO-based standards for availability, durability, and reliability.
• Define KPIs and telemetry, dashboards, and alerting for complex systems.
• Apply formal verification techniques such as TLA+ for replication and synchronization strategies.
• Provide technical leadership for production incidents and root cause analysis.
• Design strategies for in-service maintenance with minimal customer impact.
• Architect advanced security controls for multi-tenant environments and manage remediation.
• Develop and oversee IaC and automation strategies; drive automated patching and rollbacks.

Job description

Job Description

This is an opportunity to solve foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems with broad impact across OCI. We are hiring Senior Principal engineers and leaders who are excited by large-scale cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, operational automation, and building trustworthy systems. You will help shape a new team and create the platforms that enable OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently at unprecedented scale.

Leads the architecture of highly scalable, resilient distributed systems and mentors engineering teams. Drives performance optimization, elasticity, data-plane innovation, fault tolerance, and SLO-based reliability. Establishes advanced observability, correctness, replication, and operational standards while leading complex incident resolution and RCAs. Architects security, compliance, IaC, and automated change-management solutions for safe, reliable cloud operations at scale.

Responsibilities

Below are the key responsibilities:

System Design & Architecture

• Lead and mentor the architecture of highly scalable, elastic, interdependent distributed systems.
• Identify performance bottlenecks, define scalability requirements, and optimize systems for hyperscale workloads.
• Drive innovation in distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
• Architect fault-tolerant systems using advanced redundancy, replication, failover, and resilience mechanisms.
• Establish SLO-based standards for availability, durability, and reliability.
• Define KPIs and advanced telemetry, dashboards, and alerting for complex systems.
• Apply formal verification techniques such as TLA+ and develop advanced replication and synchronization strategies.

Operational Excellence

• Provide technical leadership for complex production issues, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Establish operational readiness and SOP standards across systems and partners.
• Design strategies for in-service maintenance and upgrades with minimal customer impact.

Security & Compliance

• Architect advanced security controls for multi-tenant environments and lead vulnerability remediation.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards and guide documentation across projects.

Automation & Change Management

• Develop and oversee enterprise-level IaC and automation strategies.
• Drive automated, reliable patching, upgrades, and rollbacks across interdependent systems.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution

• Lead critical, high-impact initiatives, managing timelines, deliverables, resources, and budgets while adapting to changing business priorities.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Influence cross-functional leaders and stakeholders to align on strategic objectives and build long-term partnerships.
• Champion transparency, collaboration, and diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving

• Lead advanced problem-solving and serve as an escalation point for complex issues.
• Drive innovative, data-driven solutions and root cause prevention.

Continuous Learning

• Serve as a technical thought leader, applying deep industry expertise and emerging technologies.
• Promote continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and mentorship across teams.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive organization-wide improvements to processes, tools, and workflows.
• Define metrics to measure effectiveness and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Performance & Development

• Serve as a subject matter expert on talent strategy and development.
• Provide leadership in candidate assessment, interviews, hiring decisions, and organizational talent development.

Qualifications

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 - $306,400 per year. 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.

Benefits

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&DD
• 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

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