Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN, seeks a Senior Principal engineer to lead architecture for highly scalable, reliable cloud services within OCI. You will mentor teams and shape platforms enabling OCI engineers to deploy and operate services at unprecedented scale.

You will drive performance, elasticity, data-plane innovation, fault tolerance, and observability while setting standards for incident resolution, RCAs, and automated change-management solutions across security and compliance

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in building large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong background in reliability, observability, and incident response.
• Proven ability to lead multi-team architecture and mentoring initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of highly scalable, resilient distributed systems.
• Mentor engineering teams and drive performance optimization, fault tolerance, and SLO-based reliability.
• Architect security, IaC, and automated change-management solutions for safe cloud operations.

Skills

Distributed systems

Reliability engineering

Leadership & mentoring

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.