Senior Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, Kubernetes

Oracle; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 184,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior IC5 software engineer for the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). You will lead architecture and cross-team execution to design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based cloud services at scale.

Responsibilities include improving reliability, scalability, and observability while working with OCI infrastructure integrations and AI/accelerated workloads. Strong Go/Java and Linux production ops are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with production systems.
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on major clouds or OCI.
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge: control plane, APIs, scheduling, networking, storage.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for major OKE platform initiatives.
• Design and build distributed systems that manage Kubernetes clusters across OCI regions.
• Improve OKE reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Lead reviews and production readiness activities for complex changes.
• Debug production issues across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and OCI infra.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go/Golang

Java

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Linux ops

Tools

Terraform

Karpenter

CNI/CSI

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Senior IC5 software engineer for the Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). You will lead architecture and cross-team execution to design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based cloud services at scale.

Responsibilities include improving reliability, scalability, and observability while working with OCI infrastructure integrations and AI/accelerated workloads. Strong Go/Java and Linux production ops are essential.