Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

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.

Pay / Benefits

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Key requirements

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

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