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Principal Member of Technical Staff

Oracle
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 May 2025
💰 $223,400/yr($96,800/yr$223,400/yr)

About the role

We're looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. An engineer at any level can have a significant technical and business impact.

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems .Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience .Responsibilities displayed in the job posting


Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world. Values are OCI's foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.  You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged. If you are interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud, then this is your team! Oracle is aggressively investing in the Oracle Cloud to provide the broadest, most comprehensive cloud in the industry. Only Oracle offers a complete suite of integrated services that include applications as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service – eliminating the data and business process fragmentation that come with cloud silos. A critical part of these silos is the Infrastructure Services include Compute, Storage, and Messaging service. This is your chance to be part of this exciting Compute team that offers elastic compute capabilities to run any workload in the cloud!!!
 

As a Principal Member of Technical Staff you will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Candidate Profile:

• 5-12+ years' experience designing, developing and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems. • Strong knowledge of C, C++ or Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, etc. • Demonstrable knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals, and cloud-native development. • Working familiarity with operating systems internals, networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures. • Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills. • Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus.   Top 3 skill sets / technologies in the ideal candidate:   1.  Software Engineering experience with distributed systems within large-scale, environments, focused on Install/update of firmware in CPU/GPU systems would be a plus 2.  5-12+ years' experience working on challenging issues with a self-starter / self-motivated attitude (Will vary based on level) 3.  Virtualization experience would be a huge plus 4.  Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum. May be eli

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