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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 project creating a cloud platform designed to scale with minimal manual intervention through self-healing and resilient services. You will help shape Lightweight Infrastructure, the next-generation runtime and platform layer for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance. Key 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 implement security controls, Infrastructure as Code, and automated patching. The work involves solving complex problems in distributed systems, cloud control planes, virtualization, and platform automation to ensure high availability and durability.
What does a Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $195000 from 42 postings across 13 companies.
Architect and lead the development of scalable, elastic distributed systems for cloud infrastructure.
Optimize code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads and large-scale data processing.
Design fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
Implement load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting to handle network unreliability while meeting SLOs.
Establish KPIs and build telemetry systems, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to monitor system health.
Design and execute complex validation tests, including fault injection and brown-out scenarios.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for patching, updates, and rollbacks.
Diagnose and resolve production issues while providing technical mentorship and guidance to peers.
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 distributed systems, cloud control planes, management planes, scheduling, virtualization, storage, networking, security, reliability, 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, safe retries, and lifecycle management in distributed systems.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills to resolve complex production and performance issues.
Ability to raise the technical bar through mentoring, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on technical leadership.
Distributed Systems
System Programming
Java
Go
Rust
C/C++
Cloud Infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Data Plane
Telemetry
Fault Injection
rate‑limiting
Distributed Systems
Java
Go
Rust
C/C++
Linux
Kernel Programming
System Programming
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Cloud Infrastructure
Virtualization
Networking
Storage
Security
Telemetry
Fault Injection
rate‑limiting
Data Replication
Distributed Systems
Java
Go
Rust
C/C++
Linux
Kernel Programming
System Programming
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Cloud Infrastructure
Networking
Storage
Virtualization
Security
Telemetry