Principal Software Developer - Oci Technical Strategy & Oversight Org - Networking Data Plane, C/c++, Dpu, Dpdk, Rdma

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Austin, TX +1

Principal Software Developer role focused on building and optimizing cloud infrastructure, specifically networking and storage data plane components for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The role involves designing and launching greenfield environments, engineering high-impact frameworks, and delivering core data-plane components to drive critical performance improvements. Requires expertise in C/C++, distributed systems, and networking data-plane architectures.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and launch cloud services from the ground up
  2. Engineer new container runtimes to operate OCI’s most demanding, high-availability workloads
  3. Develop remote persistent storage matching the speed and latency of local NVMe drives
  4. Deliver core data-plane components and tools driving critical performance improvements across OCI

Skills

Required

  • BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
  • 8+ years’ experience building robust, distributed services in high-performance development environments
  • Demonstrated ability to write high-quality code in C/C++, Go, or similar languages
  • Strong grasp of data structures and algorithms; experience optimizing for scale
  • Deep background in networking data-plane architectures (DPU-based or DPDK-based solutions)
  • Familiarity with network virtualization, network protocols, and distributed systems
  • Proven experience with highly distributed, large-scale service infrastructures
  • Hands-on experience in operational environments with mission-critical, tier-0 services

Nice to have

  • Expertise in Linux internals and strong Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills
  • Familiarity with DPU programming (such as P4/Pensando (AMD), DOCA/BlueField)

What the JD emphasized

  • proven record of shipping major features to production
  • deep expertise in high-scale public cloud—particularly at the data-plane level
  • lead large-scale projects
  • operational excellence