Senior Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation

Job Title

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI Infrastructure Innovation team is inventing the next generation of storage technologies. You will lead architecture and hands-on development across key layers: distributed processing, transactions, consensus, and storage engines. If you thrive at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, database internals, and cloud platforms, this role offers the opportunity to advance the state of the art. Responsibilities include:

• Lead end-to-end architecture, system design, and implementation for distributed storage platforms.
• Innovate on query processing, transaction, and IO performance, and work across different components - query planning/optimization, distributed execution engine, index and storage engine.
• Develop production-grade, high-performance software features with rigorous durability, correctness, observability, and security.
• Define performance goals and success metrics; design benchmarks and conduct large-scale experiments to validate throughput and latency.
• Define consistency, replication, and recovery strategies.
• Collaborate across storage, networking, compute, and control-plane teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions on OCI.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical leadership and reviews, and influence multi-year roadmap and technical standards.

Qualifications required:

• Deep expertise in distributed systems with hands-on delivery of large-scale, fault-tolerant, strongly consistent services.
• Experience building distributed execution engines.
• Proven ability to design for global scale: sharding/partitioning, placement policies, rebalancing, and multi-region replication.
• Strong software engineering background with performance profiling, correctness testing, and rigorous code quality.
• Cloud architecture experience on a major public cloud, including observability, orchestration, and incident response.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; proven technical leadership and mentoring.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with high-performance IO paths; understanding of cross-region networking and latency trade-offs.
• Strong foundation in consensus and transactions.
• Expertise with observability at scale: tracing, metrics, logs, eBPF/perf, chaos/failure testing, and SLO-driven operations.
• Knowledge of AI/HPC workload patterns and their implications for storage, query processing, and consistency models.

Disclaimer: Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes:

• 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 and Accrued Vacation
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave
• 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 - IC5