Principal Software Engineer

Build the Future of Cloud Compute at Oracle OCI

Are you passionate about systems engineering, virtualization, and building technology at massive scale? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments where performance, reliability, and innovation matter every day? If so, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute is looking for engineers like you to help shape the future of cloud computing.

About The Team

The Virtual Machine Infrastructure Team is responsible for one of the foundational layers of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Virtual Machines. As part of the VM Data Plane team, we design, build, and optimize the virtualization stack that powers customer workloads across OCI. Our team develops high-performance hypervisors that run on multiple CPU architectures and virtualize critical hardware components — including CPUs, GPUs, and NVMe devices — with near bare-metal performance. We are continuously advancing virtualization technology to deliver secure, highly available, elastic, and industry-leading compute infrastructure for customers around the world. This is a unique opportunity to work on deeply technical challenges that directly impact OCI’s core cloud platform.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will play a key role in designing and delivering major capabilities within Oracle Compute services. You’ll work on large-scale distributed systems and virtualization technologies that demand exceptional performance, scalability, and reliability. In this role, you will:

• Lead the development of significant features and platform capabilities
• Design and implement highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate across teams to deliver innovative compute solutions
• Mentor engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization
• Drive critical engineering initiatives and operational excellence
• Contribute to architectural direction and engineering best practices

What We’re Looking For:

• 8+ years’ experience operating large-scale, highly-available, distributed Linux-based systems.
• High proficiency in programming in Java, Rust, or Go
• Strong knowledge and interest in AI adoption including prompt engineering and agentic programming, with ChatGPT and Codex experience a plus.

We’re seeking engineers who combine strong systems-level software engineering skills with a passion for solving complex infrastructure problems. Ideal candidates are energized by ownership, collaboration, and building technology that operates at cloud scale. If you’re excited about virtualization, hypervisors, cloud infrastructure, performance optimization, and building next-generation compute platforms, we’d love to talk to you.

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: $99,600 - $234,600 per year. 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.

Career Level - IC4

About Us

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Key skills/competency

• Principal Software Engineer
• Cloud Compute
• Systems Engineering
• Virtualization
• Large Scale Distributed Systems
• Hypervisors
• Performance Optimization
• Linux
• Java
• Rust