Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure at Oracle in Seattle, WA, United States

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

• Utilize standard software development practices and procedures towards scoping, architecture, specification, development, source control, code review, documentation and testing of features.
• Work closely with fellow team members, geographically distributed teammates, and cross-functional teams toward the execution of agreed project milestones and delivery dates.
• Communicate status, and risks, and offer mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery of all committed items.
• Support operational excellence in a Cloud DevOps environment.

Requirements

• Proficiency with C/C++.
• Scripting proficiency in a language such as Python, Perl or Bash.
• Hands-on experience developing multi-threaded embedded Linux application/infrastructure.
• Experience in one or more Network or Storage stacks and protocols such as P4, DOCA, TCP/IP, NVMe, PCIe, DPDK.
• Firmware development skills and experience with embedded systems.
• Knowledge of at least one of Intel/AMD/ARM computer architectures.
• Hardware and/or System bring-up experience.
• Experience with Linux Kernel/Driver programming.
• Proficiency with Linux.
• Proficiency Virtualization technologies (SRIOV, VirtIO, VDPA etc).
• Experience in CI/CD environments.
• Comfortable working with remote lab equipment.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to learn new skills quickly as needed.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to prioritize, self-manage, self-study, and organize effectively.
• Ability to collaborate and work as a team with peers and project members.
• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities.
• Strong drive for success.
• Engaging actively in the technical decision-making process.
• Participate in technical discussions and providing feedback depending on the needs of the team/department
• Ensure compliance with development methodology and technical process.
• Qualifications

Skills

Required

• Proficiency with C/C++
• Proficiency with Linux
• Experience in CI/CD environments

Benefits

• 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 8. 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.
• 9. 11 paid holidays
• 10. 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.
• 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
• US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. 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.