Principal Software Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 33 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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As a Principal Software Engineer(Hybrid), you will join the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team to lead the design and evolution of foundational distributed systems. You will build highly scalable, elastic, and fault-tolerant services for high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing. Your daily work involves optimizing high-throughput data paths, defining scalability requirements, and managing distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns. You will utilize object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go to implement robust security controls and Infrastructure as Code. The role focuses on solving complex technical problems within multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, specifically addressing network partitions, reliability, and operational readiness. You will ensure system correctness through performance testing, proactive alerting, and mentoring engineers in operational excellence for mission-critical cloud services.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.

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Skills

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Java C++ C# Go AWS Azure Google Cloud Infrastructure as Code Distributed Systems Microservices Data Structures Algorithms Networking Operating Systems Telemetry Observability Encryption

What you'll do

Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of core distributed systems and data-plane services at hyperscale.
Define scalability, elasticity, durability, and availability requirements for all owned components.
Optimize high-throughput data paths for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing using distributed state and replication.
Design fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates through redundancy and automatic failover.
Establish service-level objectives, key performance indicators, telemetry, and proactive alerting for critical systems.
Lead performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing to validate system resilience and correctness.
Lead production incident diagnosis, guide root-cause analysis, and mentor engineers in operational excellence.
Build Infrastructure as Code and automation to enable safe patching, updates, and change management.

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 demonstrated impact on large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
Strong experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
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 practices.
Experience with system-level test automation, performance/load testing, reliability engineering, and production incident response.
Demonstrated experience leading or influencing technical architecture and mentoring engineers.
Experience with Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other large-scale cloud platforms (preferred).

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