Principal Software Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WASanta Clara, CA
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 28 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer

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The Principal Software Engineer joins the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team to develop OCI Queue, a managed, durable messaging service. In this hands-on technical leadership role, you will design and implement distributed messaging capabilities, including ordered delivery, deduplication, and workload isolation. You will build customer-facing APIs, manage request routing, and develop replicated storage while ensuring high performance, scalability, and production reliability. Key responsibilities include leading design, conducting code reviews, and driving automated testing and failure injection. You must be proficient in Java or Go, with deep knowledge of algorithms, data structures, networking, and storage fundamentals. The role requires expertise in distributed systems behavior, such as consistency, replication, and idempotency, to solve complex messaging and concurrency challenges within a cloud infrastructure environment.

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Skills

Java Go Distributed Systems Cloud Architecture Messaging Architecture gRPC Protocol Buffers Terraform CI/CD Apache Kafka RabbitMQ Amazon SQS Azure Service Bus OCI Queue Paxos Raft Linux JVM Containers

What you'll do

Lead the design and implementation of distributed messaging capabilities including ordered delivery and deduplication.
Improve service performance, capacity utilization, availability, and recovery under failure conditions.
Design reliable APIs and durable workflows while maintaining compatibility across service components.
Drive automated testing, failure injection, performance qualification, and safe production rollouts.
Investigate complex production issues and contribute to on-call operations to deliver reliability improvements.
Mentor engineers through design and code reviews while providing technical guidance on software architecture.
Implement complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
Develop and guide new software features that ensure accessibility and meet business goals.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, or comparable professional experience.
At least six years of experience developing production software, with substantial experience in distributed systems or cloud services.
Proficiency in Java or Go, including concurrent programming, debugging, and performance analysis.
Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, operating systems, networking, and storage fundamentals.
Practical knowledge of distributed-system behavior, including consistency, replication, retries, idempotency, partial failures, and recovery.
Experience designing service APIs, establishing automated testing (unit, integration, performance), and operating production services.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering work, communicate architectural decisions, and collaborate across teams.
Experience building messaging systems, distributed storage, or event-processing platforms (preferred).