Principal Software Engineer, OCI

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Service Platform Developer

We're seeking experienced and driven developers, experienced in Linux internals, virtualization and container technologies, to join a new Service Platform team within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This team is building a foundational platform that powers OCI servicesfrom low-level execution runtimes and cluster management to application orchestration and advanced change management workflows. Our goal : to accelerate OCI's evolution into an autonomous cloud, boosting efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity. As a member of this growing team, you'll play a key role in shaping innovative initiatives with broad impact across OCI. We're looking for engineering leads who thrive on solving deep technical challenges, enjoy pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and are eager to dive into complex systems to make them simpler, faster, and more reliable. If you're passionate about building high-performance software, value clean design at scale, and enjoy working in fast-paced, collaborative environmentsthis is your opportunity to make a difference.

Career Level - IC4 / IC5 / IC6

Responsibilities :

• Work on green field projects defining OCI's foundational architecture and leading the future standard of cloud industry, with massive business impact.
• Solve engineers' dream problem space such as cluster management (K8s is not the answer and never will, but building an innovative solution), lightweight and ultra fast container runtime, cloud connectivity re-imagined, action-driven machine-friendly observability & supervision infra, and hardcore distributed systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build scalable, high-performance foundational platform services.
• Define and improve engineering best practices, development processes, and design standards.
• Design, implement, and maintain software components across the full development lifecycle.
• Contribute to debugging, performance tuning, and improving reliability of system-level software.
• Drive architectural and design decisions with broad impact across OCI.

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Disclaimer :

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. Career Level - IC4

About Us :

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