Principal Distributed Systems Engineer (Onsite Nashville)

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and operate foundational systems for a highly available object storage service. This senior individual-contributor role shapes technical direction across storage-platform capabilities and works across storage, networking, security, control plane, and observability teams.

You will architect core infrastructure, lead distributed systems design for availability and durability, and drive security-by-design

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience in Java or a similar programming language.
• Experience building distributed systems across hosts or regions.
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Familiar with observability practices: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting.
• Ability to write architectural design documents and lead design reviews for complex services.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver core infrastructure for object storage, including metadata, data placement, replication, lifecycle management, and durability workflows.
• Lead the design of distributed systems that provide high availability, consistency, performance, and operational simplicity at scale.
• Improve service reliability through fault isolation, disaster recovery design, capacity planning, and rigorous operational practices.
• Drive technical strategy for cross-team initiatives; influence architecture and execution beyond your team.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, using deep systems expertise to prevent recurrence.
• Build tooling, automation, and observability to ease operation and evolution of the service.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design practices.
• Establish engineering standards through design reviews and clear written communication.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java programming

Systems design

Observability tooling

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Technical leadership

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud

Job description

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and operate foundational systems for a highly available object storage service. This senior individual-contributor role shapes technical direction across storage-platform capabilities and works across storage, networking, security, control plane, and observability teams.

You will architect core infrastructure, lead distributed systems design for availability and durability, and drive security-by-design