Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Ll Oefentherapie; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Cloud Performance Organization focused on optimizing OCI components, internal tools, and applications for performance and cost efficiency. This greenfield role involves designing and building new cloud services with autonomy and strong mentorship in a dynamic, flexible workplace.

You will lead development of scalable, elastic distributed systems with emphasis on resilience, security, IaC, and automation to enable safe patching, upgrades, and

Responsibilities

• Lead development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput workloads.
• Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems with observability, testing, replication and resilience to meet SLOs.
• Coordinate release readiness, incident response, and secure patching and upgrades.

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.