Senior Principal Software Engineer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Santa Clara, CA +1

Senior Principal Software Engineer role focused on designing and building new cloud services for a Multicloud Services organization. The role involves expertise in high-scale distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, identity, security, and observability, with a focus on control plane components for public cloud services. Requires strong technical leadership, design skills, and experience operating high-scale services.

What you'd actually do

  1. enable development teams by driving design of major service components, working with engineering managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to more junior team members
  2. go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping
  3. balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements
  4. made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument your service
  5. understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus

Skills

Required

  • distributed service engineering experience
  • design of major features
  • launching them into production
  • built and operated high-scale public cloud services
  • deep understanding of control plane architecture
  • technical leadership
  • designing, developing, and operating public cloud service control planes
  • object-oriented design
  • SDK development
  • cloud environment
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • operating systems
  • distributed systems fundamentals
  • networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)
  • standard network architectures
  • databases
  • NoSQL systems
  • storage
  • distributed persistence technologies
  • Linux

Nice to have

  • BS degree in Computer Science or related field
  • MS preferred
  • developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • driving security reviews
  • documentation
  • UX reviews
  • working with Product Managers from inception through launch
  • multi-AD/AZ and regional data centers
  • continuous integration/deployment pipelines
  • robust testing and deployment schedules
  • FedRAMP, PCI DSS, or similar compliance and auditing experience
  • threat modeling
  • risk identification techniques
  • develop security solutions

What the JD emphasized

  • public cloud services
  • control plane architecture
  • high-scale public cloud services
  • technical leadership