Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WASanta Clara, CA
Salary
$114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted
27 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $175k
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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

As a Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, you will join the Cloud Performance Organization to address service inefficiencies and improve customer experience by optimizing critical components, internal tools, and applications. You will lead the architecture and development of scalable, elastic distributed systems designed for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads. Your daily responsibilities include designing fault-tolerant, highly available systems with robust observability, replication, and resilience mechanisms while managing infrastructure through IaC and automation. You will implement security measures like encryption and access controls in multi-tenant environments while performing root cause analysis and incident response. The role requires expertise in data-plane platforms, performance testing, and automated patching. You will also mentor junior engineers and manage complex initiatives to ensure reliability and performance for cloud infrastructure services, solving core problems related to scalability and system stability.

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What you'll do

  • Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads.
  • Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, and load shedding.
  • Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, and dashboards to ensure system reliability and performance.
  • Conduct performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing to ensure service correctness.
  • Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and proactive production troubleshooting.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for safe patching and updates.
  • Enforce security measures including encryption and access controls in multi-tenant environments.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical oversight on complex initiatives.

What we're looking for

  • Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • Candidates must have 6 to 10+ years of experience in software engineering or related fields.
  • Experience designing and architecting scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads is required.
  • Expertise in building fault-tolerant, highly available systems with robust observability and resilience mechanisms is required.
  • Proficiency in implementing security, compliance, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation for cloud infrastructure is required.
  • Experience in production troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis is required.
  • Ability to mentor junior engineers and provide technical oversight on complex initiatives is required.
  • Capability to manage project timelines, resources, and deliverables while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders is required.

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