Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
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Qualifications
- Disclaimer: 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. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion Short term disability and long term disability Life insurance and AD&D Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 11 paid holidays Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. Paid parental leave Adoption assistance Employee Stock Purchase Plan Financial planning and group legal Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.
Responsibilities
- System Design & Architecture
- Design and build scalable, highly available automation services and host agents with typed, versioned APIs that support rolling deployments.
- Develop durable workflows and asynchronous operations with idempotency, safe retries, distributed locking, fencing, and failure recovery, balancing consistency, availability, performance, and security.
- Database & Infrastructure Automation
- Build reusable automation for database provisioning, migration, maintenance, recovery, inventory management, and coordinated fleet operations.
- Modernize existing tooling through phased migration to reviewed agent operations and workflows, supporting region bootstrap, safe upgrades, and rollback while protecting availability and data integrity.
- Operational Excellence
- Drive operational readiness through SLOs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, tracing, and runbooks, reducing manual intervention and recurring failures.
- Participate in on-call and serve as a technical escalation point, leading complex incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Security & Reliability
- Implement least-privilege execution, authentication, authorization, and secure communication, with controls for host validation, concurrency, and resource consumption.
- Drive automated testing for correctness, integration, concurrency, performance, and failure recovery while meeting OCI security and engineering standards.
- Planning & Execution
- Independently own complex initiatives from requirements and design through implementation, validation, deployment, and production operation.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into milestones, manage dependencies and risks, and communicate tradeoffs affecting customers, partner teams, and business goals.
- Collaboration & Technical Leadership
- Collaborate across teams and lead design and code reviews to deliver integrated, maintainable, and operationally safe solutions.
- Mentor engineers, improve shared components and engineering practices, and support hiring through interviews and technical assessments.
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