Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

This Principal Engineering role for Object Storage will lead the design, development, and operation of the service-facing layer that handles customer object-storage requests at cloud scale. This engineer will build high-performance Java services and APIs that securely authenticate, authorize, route, validate, and process requests while coordinating with metadata, storage, networking, security, and control-plane systems. The role owns technical direction for scalable, highly available, and durable distributed components; drives design reviews and implementation quality; and ensures services meet demanding latency, throughput, reliability, and operational requirements. The engineer will also improve observability, automate safe deployment and rollback workflows, investigate complex production issues, and mentor other engineers while partnering across OCI teams to deliver a simple, secure, and dependable customer experience.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

Responsibilities

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
•6+ years of professional software-engineering experience building, operating, and improving production distributed systems.
•Strong hands-on Java development experience, including concurrent programming, service and API design, data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, testing, debugging, performance tuning, code reviews, and technical documentation.
•Demonstrated experience designing scalable, elastic, high-throughput, fault-tolerant, and durable distributed services, including distributed state management, data-plane systems, replication, redundancy, failover, recovery, and large-scale code/data-path optimization.
•Sound engineering judgment regarding network partitions, consistency and availability trade-offs, retries, idempotency, throttling, rate limiting, and load shedding.
•Experience with performance, load, resilience, and correctness testing, including automated validation, failure scenarios, fault injection, or brownout testing.
•Experience defining and operating against SLOs; building telemetry, metrics, logging, dashboards, alerting, and automated validation; and leading production incident investigation and root-cause remediation.
•Experience designing secure multi-tenant cloud services using encryption, access controls, remediation practices, and compliance documentation.
•Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, communicate technical decisions clearly, and partner effectively with engineering, security, networking, and operations teams.

Preferred
•Experience with cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, automated deployment, safe patching/upgrades, and rollback automation.
•Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud at production scale.