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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,200.0 - $306,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Application Release Automation, C++ (Programming Language), Continuous Integration, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Network Architecture, Network Protocols, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, TCP/IP, Multithreading, Scripting, Delivery Pipeline, Block Storage
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_oracle6-336717

## About the Role

You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.
We're looking for hands-on senior engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services.
As a lead engineer, you will own the software design and development for major components of the Block Storage Service Infrastructure.
You will be technically leading projects with a set of other engineers, while also mentoring them.
You should be both a rock solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the data plane stack and low level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions.
You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. **Qualifications** + 10+ years' experience delivering large scale, highly available distributed systems and infrastructure services. + Demonstrated technical leadership, including driving architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-team technical initiatives. + Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, production-grade distributed services at scale. + Extensive experience with systems design and developing clean code in C++ and scripting languages such as Python, etc. + Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi-threading, I/O paths, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals. + Strong understanding of block storage systems and distributed persistence technologies. + Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures. + Experience building and operating modern
CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment workflows for large-scale distributed systems. + Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills. **Responsibilities** As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures.
Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications.