Senior Principal Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Oracle Corporation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation's OCI team seeks a senior IC5 software engineer with deep Kubernetes expertise to lead platform initiatives across the OKE and OCI infrastructure. You will design, build, and operate distributed systems that manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, ensuring reliability, security, and performance.

You will mentor engineers, drive cross-team execution, and apply AI-assisted workflows to accelerate delivery while maintaining production accountability and high code quality.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in production systems.
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise including control plane, APIs, scheduling, and networking.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for major OKE platform initiatives from architecture through implementation and production operation.
• Design and build distributed systems to create, update, scale, repair, and operate Kubernetes clusters across OCI regions.
• Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, and production readiness reviews for complex service changes.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Go

Java

Linux

Production operations

Mentor engineers

Tools

CSI drivers

CNI

Karpenter

Job description

Oracle Corporation's OCI team seeks a senior IC5 software engineer with deep Kubernetes expertise to lead platform initiatives across the OKE and OCI infrastructure. You will design, build, and operate distributed systems that manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, ensuring reliability, security, and performance.

You will mentor engineers, drive cross-team execution, and apply AI-assisted workflows to accelerate delivery while maintaining production accountability and high code quality.