Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WASan Francisco, CA
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 70 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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The Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the Technical Strategy & Oversight organization to build foundational systems for OCI. This role focuses on the Autonomous OCI initiative, a greenfield effort to create a cloud platform that scales with minimal manual work by making services self-healing and resilient. You will help shape Lightweight Infrastructure, the next-generation runtime and platform layer for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance. Responsibilities include architecting scalable distributed systems, optimizing data paths for hyper-scale workloads, and designing fault-tolerant components using redundancy and replication. You will utilize Java, Go, Rust, or C/C++ to manage distributed systems, cloud control planes, and virtualization. Key tasks involve implementing Infrastructure as Code, establishing telemetry KPIs, and resolving complex production issues to ensure high availability and durability.

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Skills

Distributed Systems System Programming Java Go Rust C/C++ Cloud Infrastructure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Data Plane Telemetry Fault Injection rate‑limiting

What you'll do

Architect and lead the development of scalable, elastic distributed systems for core infrastructure.
Optimize code and data paths to support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads and large-scale data processing.
Design fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, and automated failover mechanisms to ensure high availability.
Implement network reliability strategies including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting to meet service level objectives.
Establish telemetry, KPIs, and proactive monitoring dashboards to identify system gaps and performance issues.
Design complex validation scenarios such as fault injection and brownouts to ensure system correctness.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools for safe patching, updates, and rollbacks.
Proactively diagnose and resolve production incidents while mentoring peers on troubleshooting and operational readiness.

What we're looking for

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
6–10+ years of software engineering experience building highly available, scalable distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or a similar systems or backend language.
Deep experience in core infrastructure areas such as distributed systems, cloud control planes, networking, storage, or platform automation.
Ability to independently lead the design and delivery of complex, resilient, and observable services.
Strong understanding of failure handling, concurrency, asynchronous workflows, and lifecycle management in distributed systems.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills for complex production and performance issues.
Ability to raise the technical bar through mentoring, design reviews, and code reviews.

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