Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle Corporation; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation seeks a Software Engineer for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Cloud Performance Organization in Reston, VA. You will design and optimize performance for critical OCI components, internal tools, and services while contributing to scalable, fault-tolerant systems.

You’ll work on greenfield cloud services, collaborating with a diverse team, and receive autonomy and support to deliver high-impact solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience optimizing performance of cloud services.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and services.
• Knowledge of observability practices and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for OCI components and internal tools.
• Drive production readiness and troubleshooting across services.
• Implement security, IaC, and automation for patching and upgrades.

Skills

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Cloud computing

Observability

Scalability engineering

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.