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# Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $146,300.0 - $306,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Abstraction Layers, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Computer Networks, Software Debugging, Linux, Distributed Systems, Memory Management, Firmware, Linux Kernel, Network Programming, Network Virtualization, Network Protocols, Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, System Programming, Virtualization Technology, Concurrency, Low Latency, Hardware Acceleration, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_0c155d9db730f347b2710b22bfff6945

## About the Role

* Expertise with systems programming in C, C++, Rust, or similar low-level languages.
 * Strong understanding of Linux operating system internals.
 * Experience with networking protocols, packet processing, or high-performance network programming.
 * Familiarity with embedded systems, SmartNICs, DPUs, programmable hardware accelerators, or hardware-adjacent software development.
 * Ability to debug complex software issues across operating system, driver, firmware, and hardware boundaries.
 * Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively in a highly technical engineering environment., * Experience developing software for SmartNICs, DPUs, NIC drivers, kernel networking, or user-space packet processing frameworks.
 * Knowledge of virtualization, cloud networking, SDN, or distributed systems.
 * Experience with performance tuning, concurrency, memory management, or low-latency systems.
 * Background in hardware-software co-design or close collaboration with silicon, platform, or firmware teams., 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.

## Description

In this role, you will help develop software for next-generation programmable DPUs that are foundational to OCI's networking platform. You will work on performance-critical systems where Linux internals, hardware-software co-design, and high-performance networking come together., * Architect and implement high performance, highly available system software components - DPDK-based networking stack, hardware abstraction layers, and custom hardware acceleration stacks.

 * Leverage C/C++ expertise in building network virtualization, high performance packet processing and protocol parsers.
 * Leverage Linux OS expertise to manage memory, scheduling, I/O virtualization, kernel drivers and security features of the DPUs.
 * Collaborate with senior architects and peers across Compute, Storage, OS and Security groups across Oracle, to lead and drive project execution.