Principal Engineer, Autonomous Cloud Infra — Equity

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff to shape lightweight infrastructure and the next‑generation runtime for compute, storage, networking, and governance in a cloud environment. You will lead architecture, design, and delivery of highly available systems, mentor teams, and drive reliability and security across critical services.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, complex problem solving, and aggressive automation to enable self‑healing platforms while meeting

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6–10+ years of software engineering experience building highly available, scalable distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or a similar systems or backend language.
• Deep experience in one or more core infrastructure areas: distributed systems, cloud control planes, management planes, scheduling, virtualization, storage, networking, security, reliability, or platform automation.
• Ability to independently lead the design and delivery of complex services that must be correct, resilient, observable, and easy to operate.
• Strong understanding of failure handling, concurrency, asynchronous workflows, safe retries, and lifecycle management in distributed systems.
• Strong debugging and problem‑solving skills, including the ability to drive resolution for complex production and performance issues.
• Experience collaborating across teams and turning broad platform goals into clear designs and executable plans.
• Ability to raise the technical bar through mentoring, design reviews, code reviews, and hands‑on technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of scalable distributed systems.
• Design systems to scale with elasticity and handle large‑scale data processing.
• Build fault‑tolerant components with redundancy and automatic failover.
• Define KPIs and telemetry to identify gaps in running systems.
• Create dashboards and alerts to monitor system health and performance.
• Mentor peers and ensure operational readiness of components.

Skills

Java

Go

Rust

C/C++

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff to shape lightweight infrastructure and the next‑generation runtime for compute, storage, networking, and governance in a cloud environment. You will lead architecture, design, and delivery of highly available systems, mentor teams, and drive reliability and security across critical services.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, complex problem solving, and aggressive automation to enable self‑healing platforms while meeting