Principal or Sr. Principal Software Engineer, OCI
Principal or Sr. Principal Software Engineer, OCI
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Were proud to sponsor and attend RustConf 2025in Seattle and online. This posting is made for RustConf attendees interested in Oracle opportunities.
Were seeking experienced and driven developers experienced in Linux internals virtualization and container technologies to join a new Service Platform team within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This team is building a foundational platform that powers OCI servicesfrom low-level execution runtimes and cluster management to application orchestration and advanced change management workflows. Our goal: to accelerate OCIs evolution into an autonomous cloud boosting efficiency scalability and developer productivity.
As a member of this growing team youll play a key role in shaping innovative initiatives with broad impact across OCI. Were looking for engineers who thrive on solving deep technical challenges enjoy pushing the boundaries of whats possible and are eager to dive into complex systems to make them simpler faster and more reliable. If youre passionate about building high-performance software value clean design at scale and enjoy working in fast-paced collaborative environmentsthis is your opportunity to make a difference.
Career Level - IC4/IC5/IC6
Responsibilities
Bring your strong technical analytical and problem-solving skills to help shape the next generation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Service this role you will:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build scalable high-performance foundational platform services.
- Define and improve engineering best practices development processes and design standards.
- Design implement and maintain software components across the full development lifecycle.
- Contribute to debugging performance tuning and improving reliability of system-level software.
- Drive architectural and design decisions with broad impact across OCI.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of professional software development experience.
- Proficient in systems-level programming with one or more of the following: Rust C/C and Go.
- Demonstrated leadership in making critical technical decisions and setting engineering vision.
- Knowledge of cluster networking and cloud networking.
- Solid understanding of Linux systems including kernel driver development and virtualization.
- Strong understanding of computer networking fundamentals (e.g. OSI model TCP/IP HTTP DNS DHCP subnets gateways).
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality products through all stages of the software lifecycle.
- Experience developing high-performance low-level systems.
- Familiarity with running and supporting production systems in mission-critical live-service environments.
- Strong problem-solving skills ownership mindset and excellent communication abilities.
- Experience designing architectures for high availability scalability and future flexibility across services.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a technical lead on large-scale infrastructure projects and services.
- 10 years of professional software development experience.
- Mastery of systems programming in Rust C/ C or Go to build secure performant cloud-native components
- Networking Track:
- Extensive experience developing and operating services on public clouds such as Oracle Cloud AWS and Azure.
- Hands-on experience in cluster networking and cloud networking.
- Hands-on experience with eBPF for programmable kernel-level networking and security (e.g. via Cilium Envoy)
- Systems Track:
- In-depth knowledge of Linux internals and virtualization technologies such as KVM QEMU LXC libvirt and cgroups.
- Expert-level Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to produce clear technical designs and documentation.
- Experience with highly distributed infrastructure and scalable service architectures.
- Proven experience mentoring and hiring with a commitment to raising the technical bar across teams.
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
