Principal Software Engineer

Skip to main content. sitemap Profile Sign Out View More Jobs Principal Software Engineer Seattle, WA, United StatesSanta Clara, CA, United StatesUnited States Job Identification 339779 Job Category Product and Research Posting Date 07/13/2026, 08:26 PM Role Individual Contributor Job Type Regular Employee Does this position require a security clearance? No Years 6 to 10+ years Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English Job Description Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more.As are part of Core Infrastructure within OCI, 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. Responsibilities  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 Cloud Infrastructure solutions for one of the two new OCI services: Key value store is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service. It delivers fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability, automatically handling infrastructure management, capacity provisioning, security, and backups. It is designed to support high-volume, real-time workloads, consistently providing single-digit millisecond latency for both reads and writes, regardless of scale. A journaling service that reliably and efficiently records sequential, immutable logs (journal entries) of operations or transactions, with architecture designed to support increases in workload (scalability), while consistently delivering very fast response times for both recording and retrieving...