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Principal Engineer, OCI Object Storage

Oracle


Job Location:

Nashville, IN - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 114600 - 234600
Posted: 1 October 2026 (22 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 29 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Software Engineering

Job Summary

Description

*This position is based onsite in Nashville TN

We are seeking a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to help design build and operate the foundational systems behind a highly available durable and globally distributed object storage this senior individual-contributor role you will solve complex distributed-systems problems at massive scale and set technical direction across critical storage-platform capabilities.

You will work with engineers across storage networking security control plane and observability to deliver resilient systems that customers can trust with their most important data.

What Youll Do

* Architect and deliver core infrastructure for object storage including metadata data placement replication lifecycle management and durability workflows.
* Lead the design of distributed systems that provide strong availability consistency performance and operational simplicity at scale.
* Improve service reliability through fault isolation automated remediation disaster recovery design capacity planning and rigorous operational practices.
* Drive technical strategy for complex cross-team initiatives; influence architecture and execution beyond your immediate team.
* Investigate and resolve challenging production issues using deep systems expertise to prevent recurrence.
* Build tooling automation and observability that make the service easier to operate diagnose and evolve.
* Partner with security and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design practices into storage infrastructure.
* Establish engineering standards through design reviews technical mentorship and clear written communication.



Responsibilities

* Strong software engineering experience in Java or a similar programming language including designing developing testing debugging and maintaining production-quality services.
* Deep understanding of object-oriented programming principles including abstraction encapsulation inheritance polymorphism composition and appropriate application of common design patterns.
* Experience designing clean extensible APIs and service interfaces with an emphasis on maintainability testability backward compatibility and operational safety.
* Demonstrated experience designing and building distributed systems including services that operate across multiple hosts availability domains or regions.
* Strong knowledge of distributed-systems concepts such as replication consistency consensus partition tolerance leader election idempotency retries failure handling and eventual consistency.
* Experience designing systems for high availability scalability fault tolerance and data durability.
* Experience with concurrent and multithreaded programming performance analysis memory management and diagnosing latency or throughput bottlenecks in Java services.
* Proficiency with unit integration and end-to-end testing practices including designing tests for failure scenarios and distributed-system edge cases.
* Experience using observability tools and practices including metrics logging tracing alerting and production debugging.
* Ability to write clear technical design documents evaluate architectural tradeoffs and lead design reviews for complex services.
* Strong collaboration skills and experience partnering with engineering security networking and operations teams.
* Proven ability to mentor engineers raise engineering standards and provide technical leadership without direct people-management responsibility.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with object storage systems distributed databases file systems or other large-scale data platforms.
* Knowledge of storage-system concepts such as metadata management object lifecycle operations data placement replication or erasure coding and recovery from hardware or infrastructure failures.
* Experience designing systems that span multiple regions or availability domains.
* Experience operating services with demanding availability durability latency or throughput requirements.
* Familiarity with RESTful APIs asynchronous processing message queues and event-driven architectures.
* Experience with containerized environments cloud infrastructure and automated deployment pipelines.
* Knowledge of security practices for cloud services including authentication authorization encryption and secure data handling.



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: $114600 to $234600 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 Oracles 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 Oracles 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.



Required Experience:

Staff IC


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