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The Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the Cloud Performance Organization to address service inefficiencies and improve scalability for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In this role, you will lead the architecture and development of scalable, elastic distributed systems designed for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads. You will build fault-tolerant, highly available systems featuring robust observability, replication, and resilience mechanisms to meet specific SLOs. Your daily work involves designing data-plane platforms, implementing security remediation, and managing IaC and automation for safe patching and rollbacks. You will utilize skills in distributed state management, load shedding, and rate limiting while providing peer mentorship. This position focuses on optimizing critical components and internal tools to ensure reliability and performance across the cloud infrastructure.
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C/C++
Rust
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Write-Ahead Logging (WAL)
B-tree
LSM tree
Raft
Paxos
Multi-Paxos
MVCC
Key-Value store
Data Partitioning
Sharding
CAP theorem
Cloud Infrastructure
Low-level Systems
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