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The Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute team to provide hands-on technical leadership for control plane services, specifically focusing on Imaging and Container Registry. This role involves architecting and operating distributed, multi-tenant, and horizontally scalable systems that ensure high availability, consistent latency, and durability across regions. You will design platform features, mentor engineers in distributed systems, and own the full service lifecycle from implementation to deployment. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Java, Scala, and Python, alongside expertise in Linux, data structures, algorithms, and operating systems. You will utilize tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern build pipelines to solve cloud-scale problems, manage CPU/GPU lifecycles, and implement secure-by-default designs for mission-critical workloads within a virtualized infrastructure environment.
C/C++
Rust
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)
B-tree
LSM tree
Raft
Paxos
Multi-Paxos
MVCC
Key-Value store
Data Partitioning
Sharding
CAP theorem
Cloud Infrastructure
Low-level Systems
Operating Systems