Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Core
Designing and building foundational, scalable, elastic distributed systems and cloud infrastructure components for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads.
Role type
Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Builds
Foundational systems for OCI including Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI) runtime, compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance layers.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Distributed Systems
Required skills
Distributed systems design, Cloud infrastructure, High availability, Scalability, Fault tolerance, Concurrency management, Asynchronous workflows, Lifecycle management, Security controls, IaC and automation, Debugging, Mentoring, Technical leadership.
Preferred skills
None explicitly stated.
Technologies
Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, Oracle, DevOps, Windows.
Responsibilities
Architect scalable distributed system components, optimize code/data paths for high-throughput, design fault-tolerant and upgradable systems, implement load shedding and rate limiting, establish KPIs and telemetry dashboards, design validation approaches (fault injection, brownouts), diagnose and resolve production issues, implement security controls and compliance documentation, develop IaC and automation for patching/rollbacks, mentor peers and coach junior members, participate in hiring.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship