Principal Software Developer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Seattle, WA +1

Principal Software Developer role at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) focusing on designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms, including foundational frameworks for container runtimes and distributed systems, and high-performance storage and networking solutions. The role involves technical leadership in developing new OCI services like a serverless NoSQL database and a journaling service, emphasizing performance, scalability, and low latency at a global scale.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.
  2. Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most demanding workloads.
  3. Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.
  4. Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps.

Skills

Required

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • More than 6 years’ of experience delivering distributed, mission-critical cloud services at large scale.
  • Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
  • Cloud platform expertise (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • programming (Python, Java)
  • DevOps & automation
  • networking
  • containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • security
  • virtualization
  • database management
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.

Nice to have

  • Work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments is a plus
  • Demonstrates strong mentorship abilities

What the JD emphasized

  • mission-critical applications
  • global scale
  • next-generation platforms
  • data-plane architectures
  • serverless NoSQL database
  • low latency
  • high-volume, real-time workloads