Oracle Corporation

Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle Corporation • $114K — $234K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong background in designing scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Proficient in object-oriented or systems programming languages like Java, C++, C#, or Go.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems design, data structures, algorithms, and networking.
  • Experience with system-level test automation, performance testing, and incident response.
  • Demonstrated leadership in technical architecture and mentoring of other engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and evolution of large-scale distributed systems and data services.
  • Define and ensure scalability and availability requirements for system components.
  • Optimize data paths for large-scale data retrieval and processing.
  • Design fault-tolerant systems for continuous operation and updates.
  • Implement robust controls for network reliability and performance.
  • Establish service-level objectives and performance monitoring for critical systems.
  • Conduct tests to validate system resilience and operational readiness.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including access to expert medical opinions.
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.
  • Flexible vacation policy and generous paid time off.
  • 11 paid holidays and sick leave that accumulates annually.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Job Description

  • Compute & GPU Provisioning: Experience with BIOS/UEFI, BMC/SMM, Redfish, PLDM, TPM, virtual media, firmware installation and upgrades, and hardware lifecycle management.
  • CPU/GPU & Hardware Systems: Knowledge of CPU/GPU architectures, PCIe, DMA, NICs, NVMe, device enumeration, hardware bring-up, burn-in validation, and firmware debugging.
  • Bare-Metal & OS Provisioning: Experience with PXE/iPXE, DHCP/DNS, Linux networking, OS imaging, and secure fleet-scale provisioning and automation.
  • Leads development and begins architecting scalable, container-based services that build, validate, and monitor liquid-cooled GPU infrastructure across factory environments.
  • Develops secure infrastructure, control-plane workflows, and data-plane test capabilities that orchestrate manufacturing test lifecycles, operator workflows, quality gates, fleet status, and business reporting for platforms including GB200, GB300, VR, MI355, and MI455.
  • Automates and maintains GPU test validation; manages consistent firmware, software, and hardware configuration; and develops repair and triage capabilities that identify root causes and guide recovery.
  • Partners with Supply Chain Operations, Hardware Development, external manufacturing partners, data-center operations, NVIDIA, and AMD to resolve issues before racks ship.
  • Establishes manufacturing yield, throughput, quality, and deployment-readiness metrics that reduce rework and downstream failures, improve data-center ingestion, and accelerate reliable hyperscale AI infrastructure delivery.


Responsibilities

Responsibilities
  • Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing evolution of core distributed systems and data-plane services at hyperscale.
  • Define scalability, elasticity, durability, and availability requirements for owned components and ensure designs meet them.
  • Optimize high-throughput data paths for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing using distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns.
  • Design fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates through redundancy, automatic failover, and recovery-oriented design.
  • Apply sound distributed-systems tradeoffs for network partitions and reliability, including load shedding, throttling, rate limiting, retries, and timeouts.
  • Establish service-level objectives, key performance indicators, telemetry, dashboards, and proactive alerting for critical systems.
  • Design and lead performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing to validate correctness, resilience, and operational readiness.
  • Lead production incident diagnosis and recovery, guide root-cause analysis, and mentor engineers in operational excellence.
  • Build and improve Infrastructure as Code and operational automation that enable safe patching, updates, rollbacks, and change management.
  • Apply robust security controls and remediation practices for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure, including encryption, access controls, and compliance readiness.
    Qualifications
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of professional software-engineering experience, with demonstrated impact on large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
  • Deep understanding of distributed-systems design, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software-development practices.
  • Experience with system-level test automation, performance/load testing, reliability engineering, and production incident response.
  • Demonstrated experience leading or influencing technical architecture and mentoring engineers.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
    Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other large-scale cloud platforms.
  • Experience with data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, replication, state management, or high-throughput data processing.
  • Experience defining SLOs, building observability systems, and operating services in a 24x7 production environment.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, service automation, security controls, and compliance requirements for cloud infrastructure.


Qualifications

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.

About Oracle Corporation

Oracle Dyn Global Business Unit is a pioneer in managed DNS and a leader in cloud-based infrastructure that connects users with digital content and experiences across a global internet. Dyn's solution is powered by a global network that drives 40 billion traffic optimization decisions daily for more than 3,500 enterprise customers, including preeminent digital brands such as Netflix, Twitter, Linkedin and CNBC. Adding Dyn's best-in-class DNS and email services extend the Oracle cloud computing platform and provides enterprise customers with a one-stop shop for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). On January 31, 2017 Oracle completed the acquisition of Dyn, which now operates as an Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) global business unit (GBU).

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143,000 employees
Market Cap
$217.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$12.8 billion
Founded
1977
5 Year Trend
+2.3%
Revenue
$39.6 billion
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