Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

As Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our newly established Cloud Performance Organization. This team plays a key role in addressing service inefficiencies, reducing cloud expenses, improving customer experience, and ensuring scalability. Your work will focus on optimizing the performance of OCI’s critical components, internal tools, and applications while fostering a culture of performance engineering.This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new cloud services from the ground up. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.
Leads development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads. Designs fault-tolerant, highly available systems with robust observability, testing, replication, and resilience mechanisms to meet SLOs. Drives operational readiness, production troubleshooting, and peer mentorship while implementing security, compliance, IaC, and automation for safe patching, upgrades, and rollbacks.Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing or by calling in the United States.Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.Key ResponsibilitiesSystem Design & ArchitectureLead development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads.Define scalability requirements, optimize performance, and leverage distributed state management and data-plane platforms.Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, failover, load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting.Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to ensure reliability and performance.Design performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing, and implement replication and synchronization for correctness and availability.Operational ExcellenceProactively diagnose production issues, guide incident response and root cause analysis, and ensure operational readiness.Enable in-service maintenance and upgrades with minimal customer impact.Mentor engineers in troubleshooting and operational practices.Security & ComplianceImplement encryption, access controls, and security remediation for multi-tenant environments.Ensure compliance with applicable standards and maintain required documentation.Automation & Change ManagementDevelop and maintain IaC and automation for cloud infrastructure.Enable safe and repeatable patching, updates, and rollbacks through effective change-management practices.Core ResponsibilitiesPlanning & ExecutionManage moderately complex initiatives, prioritizing work, timelines, resources, and deliverables while providing technical oversight.Collaboration & PartnershipCollaborate across teams and stakeholders to align objectives and deliver solutions that meet business and customer needs.Promote inclusive collaboration and diverse perspectives.Problem SolvingAnalyze and resolve moderately complex issues, escalating critical concerns with clear assessments and recommended solutions.Document and share effective problem-solving practices.Continuous LearningStay current with industry trends and continuously develop technical skills.Coach and mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing.Continuous ImprovementIdentify and implement improvements to processes, workflows, and team effectiveness.Evaluate outcomes and incorporate stakeholder feedback.Performance & DevelopmentSupport talent development through candidate interviews, assessments, and hiring recommendations.Full timePosting Date: