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As a Principal Software Engineer within the OCI Storage organization, you will design and develop distributed storage systems that power high-performance, massively scalable file storage for demanding workloads like AI/ML, HPC, and large-scale enterprise applications. You will collaborate with product management and senior architects to define new capabilities, optimize features, and maintain mission-critical Tier 1 cloud services while ensuring strict availability and performance SLAs. Your daily work involves solving complex scalability challenges and improving infrastructure across compute and networking domains. To succeed in this role, you must possess expertise in C, Python, and Unix/Linux systems, alongside core competencies in distributed systems, kernel programming, network programming, cloud architecture, and elastic file systems. You will also mentor junior engineers through technical guidance and contribute to architectural discussions and testing strategies to drive engineering excellence.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
Azure
Distributed Systems
C
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
AIOps
Storage Systems
Scalability
Observability
Hardware Acceleration
Networking Technologies