Principal Software Development Engineer (OCI)

Oracle

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Nashville, TN · Austin, TX Posted 2 days ago $99,600–$234,600 / year

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This role $167k

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TL;DR

As a Principal Software Development Engineer on the OCI Limits Team, you will design and build highly scalable distributed services for managing service limits, quotas, and capacity governance across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You will lead technical reviews, drive architecture discussions, and mentor engineers while ensuring operational excellence. Your responsibilities include improving service scalability and resiliency, writing high-quality production code, and collaborating with product managers to deliver customer-focused solutions. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of experience in designing large-scale distributed systems and cloud services, proficiency in languages like Java, Go, Python, or C++, and a deep understanding of REST API design and multi-tenant service architectures. This role targets onsite positions in Nashville, TN (priority) or Austin, TX, with relocation assistance provided.

Skills

Java Go Python C++ AWS Azure GCP Terraform CloudFormation REST NoSQL Distributed Systems Kubernetes CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Git Jenkins Docker Spring Boot

What you'll do

Design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed services for the OCI Limits platform.
Lead architecture and technical design for major features, services, and platform initiatives.
Improve service scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence across the platform.
Write high-quality, maintainable, and performant production code.
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership in system design and operational readiness.
Drive automation for testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response workflows.
Proactively identify reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies.

What we're looking for

10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud services.
Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Python, C++, or similar languages.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, fault tolerance, and service-oriented architectures.
Hands-on experience with REST API design and multi-tenant service architectures.
Experience developing and maintaining highly available cloud-native services in production environments.
Familiarity with databases, NoSQL systems, storage technologies, and observability tools.
Ability to drive technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and cross-team engineering initiatives.

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