Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Job Description

Leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems. Defines and enforces scalability requirements for owned components; optimizes code and data paths for high‑throughput, hyper‑scale workloads; and leverages data plane platforms for large‑scale retrieval, storage, and processing. Designs fault‑tolerant, in‑service‑upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions, applying load‑shedding, throttling, and rate‑limiting to handle network unreliability while meeting SLOs. Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; and designs complex validation (fault injection, brownouts), replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability. Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness. Implements robust security controls, executes remediation, maintains compliance documentation, and develops IaC and automation that enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks within change‑management plans.

Responsibilities

System Scalability

• Develops distributed-system components supporting horizontal and vertical scaling through distributed-state-management tools.
• Optimizes code and systems for large-scale data processing; implements scalability requirements and reviews team implementations.
• Uses data-plane platform components for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing.
• Implements performance and load testing; designs, develops, tests, deploys, and maintains production software and cloud services.

Reliability, Correctness, and Availability

• Builds fault-tolerant components that withstand in-service updates through redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
• Applies recovery-oriented computing; implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts for network unreliability.
• Implements tests, alarm configurations, fault-injection, and brown-out scenarios to detect failures and validate correctness.
• Implements standard data-replication and synchronization techniques to preserve integrity and availability.
• Drafts and executes runbooks and operational procedures; builds dashboards, telemetry, and alerting for component health.

Operations, Security, and Change Management

• Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves component issues; implements strategies to prevent interruptions and avoid customer maintenance windows.
• Designs, implements, and maintains automation scripts, tooling, and IaC for troubleshooting and cloud-infrastructure management.
• Participates in operational-support rotations, incident response, root-cause investigations, and follow-up improvements.
• Applies advanced multi-tenant security measures, including encryption and access controls; implements remediation plans.
• Ensures compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations, maintains current documentation, and follows change-management plans for patching, updates, and rollbacks.

Collaboration and Delivery

• Partners with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Creates technical and operational documentation; drives projects forward and mentors junior team members.

Education And/or Experience

8 years of software-development experience; or

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer/Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field, plus 4 years of software-development experience; or

Master’s degree in those fields, plus 2 years of software-development experience; or

Doctorate in those fields.

Skills And Experience

• Demonstrated ability or knowledge in distributed systems; prototyping; computer-science programming; software engineering; web development; innovation; cross-functional collaboration; information vulnerabilities; operating systems; API development and integration; applied algorithm engineering; and source control.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, Go, C++, C#, or a similar language.
• Strong data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, software-engineering, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Experience building, testing, and debugging production-quality software; familiarity with REST APIs, databases, cloud applications, and agile methodologies.
• Cloud-platform experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud); System-level testing and automation; Delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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