Principal Software Engineer - Strategic Customer Engineering

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Nashville, TN +1

Principal Software Engineer on the Strategic Customer Engineering team responsible for aligning technical details across service teams, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, and driving end-to-end execution of complex projects. Designs, coordinates, and executes technical solutions impacting customer experience and scalability. Requires deep and wide-ranging experience in internetworking, cloud infrastructure, Linux system internals, workflow scalability, and organizational effectiveness.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with customer engineering leadership and OCI engineering leadership to ensure the success of your customers.
  2. Take ownership of problems and work to identify solutions.
  3. Ability to think through the solution and identify/document potential issues impacting your customers.
  4. Work with engineering teams to design infrastructure components such as cloud resources, distributed computing systems, and data storage solutions to support your customer's workflows.
  5. Troubleshoot infrastructure performance, scalability, and reliability issues and implement solutions to mitigate risks and minimize downtime.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years distributed cloud engineering experience in a software development environment
  • Development experience in Java/C++/C# as well as scripting languages
  • Experience in scripting and automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and/or Kubernetes
  • Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools for managing distributed systems
  • Strong Linux skills with hands-on experience in Oracle Linux/RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions, including system administration, package management, shell scripting, and performance optimization
  • Experience working with other cloud platform teams and accommodating requirements from those teams (compute, networking, storage, identity)
  • Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and best practices
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong documentation skills

What the JD emphasized

  • exceptionally strong communicator
  • well-rounded technical background
  • history of leading large-scale projects end-to-end
  • deep and wide-ranging
  • strengths in internetworking, cloud infrastructure, Linux system internals, workflow scalability, and organizational effectiveness
  • highest level of scalability
  • lead initiatives across engineering, operations, and leadership with minimal supervision