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Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the team to lead the design and evolution of foundational distributed systems and data-plane services at hyperscale. This role involves building highly scalable, elastic, and fault-tolerant services for high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing while establishing technical direction for reliability, security, and operational readiness. The engineer will optimize high-throughput data paths using distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns while managing infrastructure as code and automated operations. Candidates must be proficient in object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go. Required expertise includes distributed systems design, data structures, algorithms, networking, and performance testing. The role addresses the technical challenges of multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, specifically focusing on ensuring high availability through redundancy, automatic failover, and robust security controls for large-scale cloud environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197450 from 2160 postings across 139 companies.
Lead the design and evolution of core distributed systems and data-plane services at hyperscale.
Define scalability, durability, and availability requirements for all owned infrastructure components.
Optimize high-throughput data paths for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing using replication patterns.
Design fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates through redundancy and automatic failover.
Implement distributed system controls such as load shedding, throttling, rate limiting, and retries.
Establish service-level objectives, telemetry, and proactive alerting for critical infrastructure systems.
Lead performance, load, and fault-injection testing to validate system resilience and readiness.
Manage production incident diagnosis, root-cause analysis, and Infrastructure as Code automation.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of professional software engineering experience with impact on large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
Deep understanding of distributed systems design, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software development.
Experience with system-level test automation, performance/load testing, reliability engineering, and production incident response.
Demonstrated experience leading technical architecture and mentoring engineers.
Experience with large-scale cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (preferred).
Experience with data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, replication, state management, or high-throughput data processing (preferred).
Java
C++
C#
Go
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Infrastructure as Code
Microservices
Distributed Systems
Data Processing
Observability
Security Controls
Networking
Algorithms
Data Structures
Distributed Systems
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Java
C++
C#
Go
Infrastructure as Code
Microservices
Networking
Data Structures
Algorithms