Principal Network Engineer

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a hands-on Principal Network Engineer to serve as a technical lead for a key area of networking. You will design, deploy, and operate scalable network fabric across regions to support OCI workloads.

Collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams to understand requirements, drive design decisions, and deliver reliable, secure deployments while leveraging automation and best practices.

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Physical Networking organization builds and operates the global network infrastructure supporting OCI workloads, managing thousands of devices across more than 50 regions. Join the team responsible for network fabrics supporting OCI Dedicated Regions and Multicloud Connectivity. As a hands-on Principal Network Engineer, you’ll serve as a technical lead for a key area of the team’s work. You’ll work with customers to understand network requirements, lead designs and standards, and improve how networks are deployed and operated. You’ll independently drive complex initiatives while influencing team direction and partnering on work that spans teams and organizations.

The successful candidate will combine deep networking expertise with automation, disciplined change execution, and sound technical judgment. You will collaborate with network automation, virtual networking, compute, hardware, security, monitoring, region deployment, and operations teams to deliver reliable, secure, and repeatable deployments for our customers. You’ll help peers resolve difficult technical problems, make design tradeoffs clear, and raise the quality of engineering across the team.