Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure - OCI Networking

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team builds and manages a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

This is an opportunity to become a part of Virtual Networking Control Plane organization, a core OCI team that own and manage networking resources in virtual and functional layers. We serve internal customers in OCI and external customers that use virtual networking APIs and workflows.

Virtual Networking team delivers Network-as-a-Service that handle planning, provisioning, life cycle management and security of our customers' network infrastructure. We are shaping the management of network infrastructure by providing the flexibility and simplicity of a virtual network but with the manageability and control of a software defined network (SDN).

System Design & Architecture

System Scalability:

• Lead the development and implementation, and begin to architect, components of scalable distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling to meet system demands, including leveraging distributed state management tools.
• Optimize code and/or systems for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements to support hyper-scale systems.
• Define scalability requirements for owned components and ensure design and implementation requirements are met.
• Design systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).
• Leverage data plane platforms to effectively handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• Design performance and load testing.

System Reliability Design:

• Build and design fault-tolerant components and systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• Design systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
• Implement and optimize approaches to handle network unreliability, including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
• Design components and systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), setting expectations for availability and durability of other computing services within the department.

System Reliability Performance:

• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify gaps or issues in running systems.
• Build and customize moderately complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor components and system health

Correctness / Availability:

• Design and implement functional and correctness requirements for feature sets and/or systems in new or existing systems.
• Design complex test scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
• Implement data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• Take a proactive role in diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active components and systems to support ongoing operation, and mentor others in these processes.
• Implement strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• Maintain expertise in owned components and systems to ensure effective troubleshooting and performance.
• Meet operational readiness expectations through design and implementation.
• Serve in operational support rotations, providing guidance in incident response and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security:

• Implement robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption techniques and access controls.
• Execute remediation plans to address identified security gaps.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure is in compliance with industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up to date.

Automation & Change Management:

• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
• Create and adhere to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and begin designing systems and components to allow for automation of these processes.

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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.