Senior Principal Software Engineer Network & Storage Acceleration

Description

Build the Future of Cloud at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) we enable mission-critical applications for the worlds 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 deploymentsredefining whats 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 OCIs most ambitious projectsarchitecting and delivering next-generation platforms and frameworks to empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services.

What Youll 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 OCIs 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 OCIs 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 Were Looking For
Were 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 OCIs 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.

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 problemsstriking 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 (DPU-based).
• 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.

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: $135200 to $306400 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.

Career Level - IC5