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The Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the Oracle Kubernetes Engine team to build and operate massive-scale, integrated cloud services in a multi-tenant environment. This high-impact technical leadership role involves defining architecture, driving cross-team execution, and solving ambiguous production problems to deliver durable systems. You will design and build distributed systems for cluster lifecycle management, orchestration, scalability, and reliability. Key responsibilities include developing Kubernetes control plane components, controllers, and operators while improving networking and storage integrations. You will utilize Go, Java, and Linux to manage technologies like CNI, Cilium, Calico, Flannel, and CSI drivers. The role specifically addresses the technical challenges of supporting demanding AI and GPU workloads, including multi-node GPU clusters, accelerated compute, and high-performance networking like RDMA and InfiniBand.
Provide technical leadership for major OKE platform initiatives from architecture through production operation.
Design and build distributed systems to create, scale, and operate Kubernetes clusters across OCI regions.
Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and observability through deep work on Kubernetes control plane components.
Design and debug Kubernetes networking and storage integrations including CNI, Cilium, and CSI drivers.
Build automation for cluster validation, health checks, failure detection, and remote recovery.
Lead technical design, code, incident, and production readiness reviews for complex service changes.
Debug difficult production issues across service boundaries including Linux, networking, compute, and storage.
Apply AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows to accelerate design exploration, testing, and debugging.
What we're looking for
10+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent experience building and operating production software systems.
Hands-on experience designing, building, operating, or debugging production cloud services or platforms on OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP, or large-scale private clouds.
Advanced Kubernetes expertise including architecture, APIs, control plane behavior, controllers/operators, scheduling, autoscaling, networking, storage, and etcd.
Experience with Kubernetes networking technologies such as Cilium, Calico, Flannel, or other CNI implementations.
Experience with Kubernetes storage integrations, including CSI drivers or cloud storage integrations.
Strong distributed systems fundamentals including availability, failure handling, performance, scalability, and operational tradeoffs.
Strong development experience in both Go/Golang and Java.
Strong Linux, networking, debugging, and production operations skills.
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