OCI (Oracle Cloud) AI Infrastructure Innovation team is seeking a Senior Principal Performance Engineer to lead end-to-end performance strategy and engineering across the full stack application services runtimes operating systems network storage and underlying hardware. You will define architecture changes establish rigorous methodologies and tooling and drive deep-dive investigations that unlock meaningful gains in latency throughput efficiency and cost. If you thrive at troubleshooting complex distributed environments and mentoring teams to deliver measurable improvements this role offers the opportunity to advance the state of the art.
Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end performance architecture for critical services and platforms setting strategy standards and best practices across applications OS network storage and hardware layers.
Establish KPIs and benchmarking methodologies; build and maintain representative workloads and reproducible benchmarks.
Drive systemic improvements to service and data-plane architectures.
Design and build tooling for profiling tracing and telemetry with clear actionable insights.
Cross-organizational leadership to ensure performance is designed-in observable and consistent at scale.
Mentor engineers provide technical leadership and reviews and influence multi-year roadmap and technical standards.
Qualifications
Required:
Expertise in systems performance across application OS network storage and hardware.
Expertise in operating system and network stack internals (Linux kernels scheduling memory/IO subsystems TCP/IP).
Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience with performance profiling and observability.
Ability to write and reason about performant code at a low level (e.g. C raw sockets CPU/vector instructions memory/cache optimization).
Familiarity with high-performance IO paths; understanding of cross-region networking and latency trade-offs.
BS/MS in Computer Science Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience; proven technical leadership and mentoring.
Preferred:
Expertise in virtualization/containers.
Java performance experience: JVM/JIT/GC internals JFR/async-profiler and benchmarking.
Low-level engineering skills in one or more of C/C/Rust/Go with demonstrated ability to analyze instruction-level hotspots memory/cache behavior and concurrency.
Database or storage performance specialization (query execution indexing IO path optimization).
Career Level - IC5
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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