Sr Principal Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure Innovation
Company: Oracle
Location: Location not specified (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Level: lead
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-03-09
About this role
Job Description
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) architecture development engineering team is seeking a highly driven Senior Principal Software engineer. We are building the next generation of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
As a Senior Principal software engineer, part of our growing team, you will be involved in evaluation, prototyping, and optimizing cutting-edge distributed systems and cloud platforms.
You will define, design, and implement large-scale high-performance cloud services. You will interact closely with hardware, software development teams, and internal and external partners to help drive Oracle’s cloud platform solution space. You will be a critical part of the team developing Oracle’s growing cloud infrastructure solutions.
You will work with the latest distributed systems architectures, benchmark their performance, and collaborate with software engineers to ensure tight integration of new platform features. You’ll have a direct impact on shaping the future of highly available, scalable, and performant cloud platforms for a variety of workloads.
Responsibilities
Our Senior Principal engineers are also the people who can work independently and provide technical leadership to the broader organization. You should have experience developing high-scale infrastructure and operating large, distributed services, and an understanding of how to make these cloud-scale services resilient. The ideal candidate will be technically strong and productive; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements. You understand operational excellence and know-how to infuse a culture of being proactive within your team. You recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data-driven approaches.
- Evaluation of system architecture and proposed implementation path analysis.
- Work directly with hardware, architecture, and software ...