Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan with match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Cloud Performance Organization in Reston, VA. The role focuses on optimizing OCI components, internal tools, and applications for performance, reliability, and scalability in a fast-growing cloud environment.

The position offers autonomy, collaboration across diverse teams, and opportunities to mentor engineers while advancing security, automation, and operational excellence.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads.
• Define scalability requirements, optimize performance, and leverage distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
• Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to ensure reliability and performance.
• Design and implement IaC and automation for cloud infrastructure; enable safe patching and rollbacks.
• Mentor engineers in troubleshooting and operational practices and collaborate across teams.

Job description

Job Description

As Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our newly established Cloud Performance Organization. This team plays a key role in addressing service inefficiencies, reducing cloud expenses, improving customer experience, and ensuring scalability. Your work will focus on optimizing the performance of OCI’s critical components, internal tools, and applications while fostering a culture of performance engineering.

This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new cloud services from the ground up. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged. Leads development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads. Designs fault‑tolerant, highly available systems with robust observability, testing, replication, and resilience mechanisms to meet SLOs. Drives operational readiness, production troubleshooting, and peer mentorship while implementing security, compliance, IaC, and automation for safe patching, upgrades, and rollbacks.

Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture

• Lead development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads.
• Define scalability requirements, optimize performance, and leverage distributed state management and data‑plane platforms.
• Design fault‑tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, failover, load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting.
• Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to ensure reliability and performance.
• Design performance, load, fault‑injection, and brownout testing, and implement replication and synchronization for correctness and availability.

Operational Excellence

• Proactively diagnose production issues, guide incident response and root cause analysis, and ensure operational readiness.
• Enable in‑service maintenance and upgrades with minimal customer impact.
• Mentor engineers in troubleshooting and operational practices.

Security & Compliance

• Implement encryption, access controls, and security remediation for multi‑tenant environments.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards and maintain required documentation.

Automation & Change Management

• Develop and maintain IaC and automation for cloud infrastructure.
• Enable safe and repeatable patching, updates, and rollbacks through effective change‑management practices.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution

• Manage moderately complex initiatives, prioritizing work, timelines, resources, and deliverables while providing technical oversight.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Collaborate across teams and stakeholders to align objectives and deliver solutions that meet business and customer needs.
• Promote inclusive collaboration and diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving

• Analyze and resolve moderately complex issues, escalating critical concerns with clear assessments and recommended solutions.
• Document and share effective problem‑solving practices.

Continuous Learning

• Stay current with industry trends and continuously develop technical skills.
• Coach and mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement improvements to processes, workflows, and team effectiveness.
• Evaluate outcomes and incorporate stakeholder feedback.

Performance & Development

• Support talent development through candidate interviews, assessments, and hiring recommendations.

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: $114,600 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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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