Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/BTech in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience, including substantial experience designing, shipping, and operating scalable, cloud-native distributed systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership for complex, multi-service initiatives, including architecture definition, technical roadmaps, design reviews, and delivery across multiple teams.
• Strong proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go and/or Java; proficiency with scripting or automation languages such as Python.
• Deep experience with distributed-systems fundamentals, microservice design patterns, service-to-service communication, data consistency, fault tolerance, and highly available service design.
• Experience designing production services with robust observability, including service-level indicators/objectives, dashboards, metrics, alarms, capacity planning, and operational runbooks.
• Proven production-operations experience, including incident response, root-cause analysis, on-call practices, and driving systemic reliability improvements.
• Strong foundation in computer science concepts, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and programming paradigms.
• Ability to author and communicate technical proposals, architecture documents, design specifications, and presentations for diverse audiences.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.
• You are a hands-on cloud engineer and technical leader with a record of delivering high-scale, high-impact distributed systems.
• You turn ambiguous business and infrastructure problems into clear technical strategy, phased execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• You care deeply about customers and consistently make sound trade-offs among reliability, security, velocity, simplicity, and cost.
• You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, product leaders, and partner teams.
• You set a high engineering bar, use data to build consensus, and constructively challenge assumptions.
• You thrive in a fast-moving environment, take ownership across organizational boundaries, and mentor engineers at multiple levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience building control-plane and/or data-plane solutions for a cloud provider or other large-scale infrastructure company.
• Experience with the physical asset lifecycle in cloud-scale data centers, including planning, delivery, inventory, deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Experience with Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) systems, capacity-planning tools, or physical infrastructure workflows.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and modern infrastructure components such as service discovery, secret storage, containerization, and software-defined networking.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving complex performance, scaling, and reliability issues in large distributed environments.
• Track record of establishing technical standards, reusable platform capabilities, or engineering practices adopted across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the technical architecture for services and tools that accelerate OCI compute and network capacity growth.
• Lead the design and delivery of resilient, scalable, secure, and operable services for the end-to-end physical asset lifecycle.
• Translate long-term business and infrastructure goals into technical strategy, architecture roadmaps, and sequenced execution plans.
• Remain hands-on: prototype critical paths, review code and designs, solve difficult technical problems, and guide implementation of high-risk components.
• Drive alignment across engineering, product, operations, security, and partner organizations; establish clear interfaces and durable integration contracts.
• Define and champion operational-excellence standards, including observability, service health, incident learning, capacity planning, and reliability goals.
• Identify systemic risks, technical debt, and scaling bottlenecks; prioritize improvements using customer impact and data-driven analysis.
• Raise the technical bar through architectural reviews, engineering standards, technical mentorship, and constructive feedback.
• Influence major decisions for new and existing products, build consensus around trade-offs, and communicate decisions clearly to stakeholders.
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, simplicity, and iterative delivery while balancing speed with quality.
• You are a hands-on cloud engineer and technical leader with a record of delivering high-scale, high-impact distributed systems.
• You turn ambiguous business and infrastructure problems into clear technical strategy, phased execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• You care deeply about customers and consistently make sound trade-offs among reliability, security, velocity, simplicity, and cost.
• You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, product leaders, and partner teams.
• You set a high engineering bar, use data to build consensus, and constructively challenge assumptions.
• You thrive in a fast-moving environment, take ownership across organizational boundaries, and mentor engineers at multiple levels.