Principal Software Engineer, OpenSearch Platform

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Nashville is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build and operate OCI Search Service with OpenSearch. This individual-contributor role owns complex distributed-systems design and service excellence for a managed search and analytics platform.

You will work on production-scale infrastructure, focusing on architecture, automated operations, security, and customer experience to ensure reliability and performance for application search, log analytics, and

Job description

Overview
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build and operate OCI Search Service with OpenSearch. This individual-contributor role owns complex distributed-systems design and service excellence for a managed search and analytics platform.

Why OCI
OCI offers the opportunity to solve production-scale infrastructure problems where architecture, automated operations, security, and customer experience are inseparable. The role contributes to a managed service used for application search, log analytics, and observability workloads.

Org: Leads platform projects crossing multiple teams, evolving runtimes or middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. Diagnoses and resolves complex cross-service issues; enforces versioning, compatibility, and safe rollout practices. Drives observability standards, capacity planning, and resilience patterns across several workloads. Produces migration guides and adoption playbooks that raise ecosystem consistency and developer experience.