Principal Software Engineer
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is looking for aPrincipal Software Engineerto lead the development of scalable resilient and secure infrastructure systems that underpin the core of OCIs compute platform. This role sits within theHost Provisioning Services (HoPS)team which owns the critical infrastructure responsible for automating the full server lifecycle from rack integration and hardware bring-up to customer-ready instance provisioning and firmware management.
HoPS services operate at the intersection of bare metal hardware and full-stack orchestration frameworks. They interface directly with components like BMCs NICs SmartNICs ILOMs GPUs and custom firmware stacks. The team builds microservices and tooling that provision configure secure and validate server platforms across OCIs global fleet.
As a Principal Engineer you will deliver highly available services and automation pipelines that manage server provisioning at hyperscale enable firmware pinning for deterministic customer environments and deliver fleet-wide firmware updates and telemetry-based observability. Youll drive solutions to support new silicon (e.g. NVIDIA AMD Intel platforms) SmartNIC/HostNIC convergence RoT security integration and the evolution of OCIs infrastructure into next-gen clusters and composable hardware environments.
You will partner closely with teams across Compute Networking Security Datacenter Engineering and Hardware Development to ensure OCI can launch scale and maintain new server platforms with minimal operational overhead and high reliability.
This role is ideal for experienced systems engineers with a deep understanding of operating systems hardware-software integration distributed services and cloud-scale automation.
Responsibilities
Design and develop scalable resilient and secure infrastructure systems for OCIs computes host provisioning services
Build microservices and automation pipelines for server provisioning firmware updates and lifecycle management
Integrate with low-level hardware components (BMCs NICs SmartNICs ILOMs GPUs) and custom firmware stacks
Design and develop reliable services to support new silicon platforms (NVIDIA AMD Intel) and SmartNIC/HostNIC convergence
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Compute Networking Security Datacenter and Hardware Engineering
Ensure high availability observability and operational efficiency at cloud hyperscale
Contribute to the evolution of OCIs infrastructure into next-gen cluster and automation frameworks
Qualifications
Disclaimer:
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96800 to $223400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience market conditions and locations as well as reflect Oracles differing products industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical dental and vision insurance including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC4
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
