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# Senior Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Carson City, NV, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,200.0 - $306,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Databases, Shard (Database Architecture), Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Integrated Development Environments, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Open Source Technology, Oracle (Applications), Service Development Studio, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Database Optimization, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/40D16A13A83344DE9DF518D8B0FCD6C1/job/

## About the Role

For this role, we are looking for technical leaders to build and deliver a data service forming the backbone of OCI. You must be self-motivated engineer with passion and expertise in solving challenging systems, data-plane level and performance problems. You should be a rock-solid developer able to dive deep into low-level systems, design broad distributed system interactions for high performance, high scale data-planes. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

With your superb technical, research and analytical capabilities and demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively to delight our customers, you will envision, collaborate with executives for investment and drive the software design and development for major data-plane components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. You will define the foundations for the next generation of OCI data-planes, making deep architectural changes calls as an outstanding builder and technical leader with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects.

Responsibilities

 * 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
 * Provides strategic technical guidance to senior leadership, influencing org-wide goals and driving alignment across initiatives.
 * Strong experience of C/C++ and open to work on Rust
 * Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
 * Experience in low-level and performance-critical system level design and service development.
 * Working experience with some of the following technologies: High-performance distributed storage, Write-Ahead Logging (WAL), Indexing strategies (B-tree, LSM tree), data partitioning/sharding, Raft, Paxos, or Multi-Paxos for distributed consistency, Transaction Management (MVCC), Partitioning/sharding, distributed transactions, CAP theorem trade-off
 * Contributor of open source or commercial database, such as RocksDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc. is a plus
 * Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
 * Comfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environments.
 * Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes.
 * Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
 * Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
 * Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments
 * Demonstrates strong mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing teams while aligning engineers with shared objectives.