Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle Corporation; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation's Cloud Infrastructure team in Reston, VA is seeking a Software Engineer to join the newly formed Cloud Performance Organization. You will design and optimize the performance of OCI’s critical components, internal tools, and applications, with a focus on scalable, high-throughput systems and automation.

You will lead development and architecture of elastic distributed systems, build fault-tolerant, highly available services with strong observability, testing, and rollback

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.