Principal Cloud Search Engineer (OpenSearch)

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 141,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build and operate OCI Search Service with OpenSearch. This individual-contributor role owns complex distributed-systems design and service excellence for a managed search and analytics platform.

The role focuses on scalable OpenSearch clusters, production readiness, and observability, with responsibilities spanning design, testing, and on-call incident response.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent industry experience.
• 10+ years in software engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating scalable OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or similar managed-service clusters.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, availability, throughput, and production operations.
• Proficiency in Java and Python and experience with robust unit, integration, and CI practices.
• Hands-on experience with automation, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning.
• Exposure to vector databases is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve secure, scalable features for the managed OpenSearch service.
• Drive sound design decisions, release planning, production readiness, and operational excellence.
• Improve build systems, test frameworks, and performance and scalability validation.
• Partner across OCI to remove delivery blockers and troubleshoot complex distributed-network and service issues.
• Automate operational procedures, strengthen SRE practices, and participate in the on-call rotation.
• Apply OCI security standards and mentor engineers through code review and problem solving.

Skills

OpenSearch

Java

Python

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Monitoring

Incident response

Vector databases

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience

Tools

Elasticsearch

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build and operate OCI Search Service with OpenSearch. This individual-contributor role owns complex distributed-systems design and service excellence for a managed search and analytics platform.

The role focuses on scalable OpenSearch clusters, production readiness, and observability, with responsibilities spanning design, testing, and on-call incident response.