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The Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer joins the Virtual Machine Data Plane team to build hypervisor technology powering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure virtual machines. This role focuses on enabling secure, high-performance, multi-tenant compute by allowing a single physical host to run many independent customer VMs. You will develop virtualization capabilities, including live-migration technology, and strengthen security through Shielded Instances and Confidential Computing. Key responsibilities include designing host-side software, optimizing platforms across Intel, AMD, and Arm architectures, and solving complex problems in CPU virtualization, memory management, device emulation, networking, storage, and fault recovery. The role requires expertise in systems programming, operating systems, virtualization, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and performance engineering to ensure cloud compute remains resilient, secure, and available for millions of workloads.
Design and build hypervisor software to securely isolate multi-tenant virtual machines at cloud scale.
Enable and optimize OCI compute platforms across Intel, AMD, and Arm hardware architectures.
Develop live-migration technology to move running VMs between physical hosts with minimal disruption.
Build security capabilities such as Shielded Instances and Confidential Computing to protect workload integrity.
Design fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates, automatic recovery, and high availability.
Build automated validation, performance, stress, and fault-injection testing for new platforms and features.
Instrument services with telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to detect and recover from operational issues.
Develop tooling and automation for deployment, troubleshooting, and the safe rollout of hypervisor changes.
What we're looking for
Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Candidates must have 6 to 10+ years of experience.
Experience with systems programming, operating systems, virtualization, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or performance engineering is especially relevant.
Experience with CPU virtualization, memory management, device emulation, networking, storage, observability, and fault recovery is required.
Experience with Intel, AMD, and Arm architectures is required.
Experience with hypervisor and host-side software development is required.
Experience with automated validation, performance, stress, fault-injection, and compatibility testing is required.
Experience with telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for operational issues is required.