Senior Principal Software Engineer - Media Ads Service

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Nashville, TN +1

Senior Principal Software Engineer role focused on designing and delivering large-scale streaming and ad delivery systems with ultra-low latency, exceptional reliability, and global performance. Requires deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and real-time streaming platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the design and evolution of scalable, resilient backend services for video delivery, ad insertion, and real-time traffic orchestration.
  2. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner across product, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver reliable systems.
  3. Drive architecture reviews, resolve high-severity performance and scaling issues, and establish best practices for quality, observability, and operational excellence.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • deep expertise in distributed systems
  • cloud infrastructure
  • real-time streaming platforms
  • high-scale backend architectures
  • networking
  • service reliability
  • performance optimization
  • technical leadership
  • architecture ownership
  • cross-functional influence
  • mentoring senior engineers

Nice to have

  • video delivery
  • ad tech
  • low-latency media systems

What the JD emphasized

  • ultra-low latency
  • exceptional reliability
  • global performance
  • high-scale backend architectures
  • service reliability
  • performance optimization