Senior Principal Software Engineer (IC5) – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Build the Future of Cloud at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we enable mission-critical applications for the world’s top enterprises, delivering hyper-scale, secure, multi-tenant cloud services across 50+ global regions. As leaders in cloud innovation, OCI is driving transformation with dedicated, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge computing deployments—redefining what's possible for the cloud ecosystem.
About Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO)
Within TSO, our mission is to maximize customer choice and transparency while delivering high-value cloud solutions. We are at the strategic center of OCI’s most ambitious projects—architecting and delivering next-generation platforms and frameworks to empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services.
What You’ll Be Building and Leading
- End-to-End Solutions: Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.
- Foundational Frameworks: Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most demanding workloads.
- Performance at Scale: Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.
- Strategic Innovation: Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps.
Why Join Us?
- Industry Impact: Shape the direction and standards of the global public cloud by leading initiatives with large-scale customer and organizational impact.
- Personal Growth: Accelerate your career at the intersection of technical and strategic leadership, with opportunities to influence OCI's top priorities and outcomes.
- Collaborative Leadership: Partner with and mentor diverse, world-class engineering teams while enjoying autonomy and strong executive support.
- Culture of Excellence: Help foster an inclusive, high-performance workplace where innovators of all backgrounds can thrive, drive change, and deliver excellence.
Who We’re Looking For
We’re seeking visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud. As a recognized expert, you will deliver complex solutions for OCI’s networking and storage needs, mentor senior engineers, drive strategy, and be responsible for cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services. You are respected for providing technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the organization. Your influence reaches across product, engineering, and operational teams, and you routinely collaborate with executive leadership to set and realize long-term strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical and architectural leadership across multiple teams and projects; set short- and long-term engineering direction for core initiatives.
- Define and drive execution of foundational services/platforms that impact OCI globally.
- Guide teams in decomposing and solving ambiguous, complex problems—striking a balance between innovation, performance, and reliability.
- Mentor, coach, and develop engineers at all levels; foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and business leaders to define roadmaps and deliver high-impact outcomes.
- Drive rigorous code and design reviews, operational readiness, and best practice adoption across the organization.
- Represent OCI TSO in cross-organization initiatives, executive briefings, and industry forums.
Basic Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 12+ years’ experience delivering distributed, mission-critical cloud services at large scale.
- Recognized expertise in writing and reviewing high-quality code in C/C++, Go, or similar languages.
- Exceptional knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system-level optimization for performance and scale.
- Extensive experience with networking data-plane architectures (e.g., DPU-based or DPDK-based solutions).
- Expertise in network virtualization, protocols, and distributed systems design.
- Proven experience leading operationally critical, Tier-0 platform and infrastructure teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep expertise in Linux internals, distributed system troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Recognized authority in DPU programming (e.g., P4/Pensando/AMD, DOCA/BlueField) and cutting-edge cloud infrastructure.
- Record of publication, open-source leadership, or conference speaking.
