Principal Member of the Technical Staff Software Developer 4

Description

As a Principal Software Development Engineer (IC4) you will take ownership of designing implementing and operating core components of our streaming infrastructuredriving scalability resiliency and low-latency performance across distributed environments. You will lead major features and services through the full development lifecycle from architecture and design to deployment observability and production operations.

In this role you are expected to provide technical leadership mentor junior engineers and influence engineering best practices across the team. Youll bring deep experience in distributed systems strong programming fundamentals and a mindset focused on operational excellence and continuous improvement. This position offers the opportunity to shape key architectural decisions guide the evolution of our platform and help develop the next generation of OCIs cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities
What Youll Do

• Lead the design development and operation of core features and services for our streaming platform ensuring production-grade performance durability and efficiency at scale.
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex projectsrequirements architecture implementation testing rollout monitoring and ongoing operations.
• Debug high-impact production issues elevate observability and instrumentation and drive improvements to operational maturity across the platform.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers providing code reviews design coaching and knowledge-sharing to elevate the technical bar.
• Drive reliability automation and process optimization initiatives including tooling CI/CD improvements configuration management and architectural simplification.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to influence product direction communicate tradeoffs and align on platform-level technical decisions.

Who You Are

• 8 years of hands-on software development experience in distributed systems infrastructure platforms or cloud services.
• Deep proficiency in at least one major programming languages- Java and Python ( or similar) with a strong track record of shipping and owning production services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems conceptsstreaming ingestion and delivery partitioning fault tolerance consensus performance tuning and observability.
• Able to drive architectural decisions by analyzing tradeoffs across latency throughput durability consistency and cost.
• Highly skilled in debugging complex distributed systems interpreting logs/metrics/traces and identifying systemic root causes.
• Effective mentor and team-level technical leader who influences engineering culture supports peers and fosters shared technical excellence.

Nice to Have

• Experience in large-scale streaming
• Familiarity with event-driven systems time-series semantics and high-throughput data pipelines.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines container orchestration (Docker Kubernetes) and modern observability stacks (metrics logs tracing).
• Background in incident management operational readiness reviews SRE practices or reliability engineering for distributed systems.

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