Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

In this role you will help optimize OCI’s critical components and internal tools as part of the Cloud Performance Organization. You’ll design and build scalable, high-throughput cloud services from the ground up, balancing performance with reliability. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to set SLOs, implement observability, and drive improvements that reduce cloud costs and improve customer experience. This greenfield opportunity offers autonomy, mentorship, and a chance to influence how Oracle scales its AI-enabled cloud solutions. You will be part of a dynamic, inclusive culture that values bold ideas and practical impact.

• flexible medical coverage
• life insurance
• retirement options
• volunteer programs
• inclusive culture
• accommodations for disabilities

• Lead development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads
• Define scalability requirements, optimize performance, and leverage distributed state management and data-plane platforms
• Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, failover, load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting
• Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to ensure reliability and performance
• Design performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing, and implement replication and synchronization for correctness and availability
• Proactively diagnose production issues, guide incident response and root cause analysis, and ensure operational readiness
• Enable in-service maintenance and upgrades with minimal customer impact
• Mentor engineers in troubleshooting and operational practices
• Implement encryption, access controls, and security remediation for multi-tenant environments
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards and maintain required documentation
• Develop and maintain IaC and automation for cloud infrastructure
• Enable safe and repeatable patching, updates, and rollbacks through effective change-management practices
• Plan and manage moderately complex initiatives with technical oversight
• Collaborate across teams to align objectives and deliver solutions
• Promote inclusive collaboration and diverse perspectives
• Analyze and resolve moderately complex issues with clear recommendations
• Document and share effective problem-solving practices
• Stay current with industry trends and continuously develop technical skills
• Coach and mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing
• Identify and implement improvements to processes, workflows, and team effectiveness
• Support talent development through candidate interviews and hiring recommendations

• collaborative mindset
• mentorship
• problem-solving
• distributed systems design
• scalability and performance optimization
• observability and telemetry