Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Socket.dev; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

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Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead development of scalable, resilient infrastructure within the HoPS team, spanning server provisioning, firmware management, and automation at hyperscale in Nashville.

You will partner with Compute, Networking, Security, Datacenter Engineering, and Hardware Development to deliver reliable services that automate full server lifecycles, from hardware bring-up to customer-ready instances.

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is looking for aPrincipal Software Engineerto lead the development of scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure systems that underpin the core of OCI’s compute platform. This role sits within theHost Provisioning Services (HoPS)team, which owns the critical infrastructure responsible for automating the full server lifecycle from rack integration and hardware bring-up to customer-ready instance provisioning and firmware management. HoPS services operate at the intersection of bare metal hardware and full-stack orchestration frameworks. They interface directly with components like BMCs, NICs, SmartNICs, ILOMs, GPUs, and custom firmware stacks. The team builds microservices and tooling that provision, configure, secure, and validate server platforms across OCI’s global fleet.

As a Principal Engineer, you will deliver highly available services and automation pipelines that manage server provisioning at hyperscale, enable firmware pinning for deterministic customer environments, and deliver fleet-wide firmware updates and telemetry-based observability. You’ll drive solutions to support new silicon (e.g., NVIDIA, AMD, Intel platforms), SmartNIC/HostNIC convergence, RoT security integration, and the evolution of OCI’s infrastructure into next-gen clusters and composable hardware environments.

You will partner closely with teams across Compute, Networking, Security, Datacenter Engineering, and Hardware Development to ensure OCI can launch, scale, and maintain new server platforms with minimal operational overhead and high reliability.

This role is ideal for experienced systems engineers with a deep understanding of operating systems, hardware-software integration, distributed services, and cloud-scale automation.

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