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Principal Software Developer

Posted on Jan. 21, 2026

  • Santa Clara, United States of America
  • No Salary information.
  • Full Time

Principal Software Developer job opportunity

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more.

At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We’re embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as canonical implementation of core components for data planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating our expertise on building low level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI.

We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

Responsibilities

For this role, we are looking for self motivated engineer to design and develop core Management Plane components that interact very closely with lower layers of Dataplane. This an exciting opportunity to deliver a new Tier 0 service from scratch and work with senior architects and leaders at OCI. You must be self-motivated engineer with passion and expertise in solving challenging distributed systems and performance problems. You should be a rock solid developer able to dive deep into low-level systems, design broad distributed system interactions for high performance, high scale data-planes. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

With your superb technical, research and analytical capabilities and demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively to delight our customers, you will envision, collaborate with executives for investment and drive the software design and development for new major distributed system components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You will define the foundations for the next generation of OCI infrastructure, making deep architectural changes calls as an outstanding builder and technical leader with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Career Level - IC4


Preferred Skills and Experience:

  • More than 6 years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
  • Strong experience of C/C++, Rust (preferred), Python
  • Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
  • Experience in large scale and performance-critical system level design and service development.
  • Working experience with some of the following technologies: High performance distributed storage or databases or streaming services, Raft, Paxos, or Multi-Paxos for distributed consistency, CAP theorem trade-off
  • Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
  • Comfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environments.
  • Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes.
  • Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
  • Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
  • Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments.

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