Principal Network Developer

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 102,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and optimization of large-scale RDMA/RoCE network fabrics across OCI's global cloud infrastructure. You will combine deep networking expertise with strong automation and software engineering skills to improve performance, scalability, reliability, and operating efficiency.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture standards, and shape tooling and practices across hundreds of thousands of devices and millions

Qualifications

• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale RDMA/RoCE networks.
• Knowledge of RDMA, RoCE, Ethernet fabrics, QoS, and AI/GPU networking.
• Expertise in routing and switching: BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, data center networking.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, APIs.
• Experience with telemetry, observability, monitoring, performance analysis, and incident management.
• Experience supporting hyperscale cloud, AI/GPU, HPC, or large-scale distributed infrastructure.
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, validation, and lifecycle management of large-scale RDMA/RoCE networks across OCI.
• Translate architectures into scalable deployment plans for global cloud environment.
• Serve as technical lead for complex network initiatives spanning data center networking and automation.
• Develop automation frameworks, scripts, and pipelines to improve deployment and reliability.
• Design test strategies and lead pre-production validation and deployment readiness for high-performance fabrics.

Skills

RDMA/RoCE networking

Cloud-scale networking

Automation leadership

Incident management

Network performance tuning

Mentoring teams

Vendor/customer collaboration

Tools

Python

Ansible

APIs

Telemetry tooling

Job description

Job Description

The OCI AI Infrastructure – Network Operations team operates the high-performance RDMA/RoCE network fabrics powering OCI’s largest AI, GPU, and HPC workloads. These globally distributed networks support some of the most demanding generative AI workloads running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

As a Principal Network Engineer, you will lead the design, deployment, operation, and optimization of large-scale RDMA/RoCE network fabrics across OCI’s global cloud infrastructure. You will combine deep networking expertise with strong automation and software engineering skills to improve network performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.

You will design advanced automation, testing, telemetry, and monitoring solutions; lead network validation, incident response, and root cause analysis; and drive performance and capacity improvements across production environments. You will partner with engineering teams, vendors, and customers to resolve complex technical challenges, ensure deployment readiness, and evolve network architecture and operational practices at cloud scale.

As a technical leader, you will also mentor engineers, influence architecture and engineering standards, and help shape the tools and systems supporting hundreds of thousands of network devices and millions of servers across OCI.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, validation, and lifecycle management of large-scale RDMA/RoCE network fabrics supporting OCI AI, GPU, and HPC infrastructure.
• Translate network architectures into scalable designs and deployment plans, ensuring performance, reliability, and operational readiness across OCI’s global cloud environment.
• Serve as technical lead for complex network initiatives spanning RDMA/RoCE fabrics, data center networking, automation, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Develop automation frameworks, tools, scripts, and infrastructure pipelines to improve network deployment, testing, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Design test strategies and lead pre-production validation, network change reviews, and deployment readiness for high-performance network fabrics.
• Build and enhance telemetry, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting to identify network health, congestion, performance, and reliability issues.
• Lead incident response, complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for network issues impacting OCI AI and GPU workloads.
• Analyze network performance and capacity, including latency, throughput, packet loss, and congestion, to drive scalable improvements.
• Partner across OCI Network Engineering, SRE, AI Infrastructure, Data Center Operations, product teams, and vendors to deliver reliable network solutions.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to network architecture, engineering standards, operational tooling, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale RDMA/RoCE, cloud, data center, or high-performance networks.
• Knowledge of RDMA, RoCE, Ethernet fabrics, congestion control, QoS, and AI/GPU networking.
• Expertise in routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN, and data center networking.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, APIs, or similar technologies.
• Experience with network telemetry, observability, monitoring, performance analysis, and incident management.
• Experience supporting hyperscale cloud, AI/GPU, HPC, or large-scale distributed infrastructure.
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives and collaborate across engineering, operations, customers, and vendors.

Qualifications

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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