Sr Principal Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure Innovation

Oracle is a leading company in AI and cloud solutions, and they are seeking a highly driven Senior Principal Software Engineer to join their Cloud Infrastructure’s architecture development engineering team. The role involves evaluating, prototyping, and optimizing cutting-edge distributed systems and cloud platforms while collaborating closely with various teams to define and implement high-performance cloud services.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluation of system architecture and proposed implementation path analysis
• Work directly with hardware, architecture, and software development teams on system architecture, implementation, development, deployment, and troubleshooting. Collaboration is also expected with the wider Oracle engineering and operations functional groups as well as our external partners
• Conduct comprehensive benchmarking and performance analysis of distributed system components from various vendors
• Compare and contrast new solutions in infrastructure and distributed systems with industry-standard platforms
• Develop tools and processes for evaluating the performance of system components in real-world applications
• Contribute to the design and improvement of performance optimization algorithms for distributed systems

Requirements:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience in software development, including building and operating large-scale, highly distributed systems
• Demonstrated proficiency in coding with Java, GoLang, C#, or similar object-oriented languages
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, performance optimization, and benchmarking techniques
• Experience in the architecture, design, and implementation of modern server platforms (across multiple architectures, including x86 and ARM)
• Proven ability to debug complex issues spanning software and hardware components
• Hands-on experience developing, maintaining, and leading large-scale cloud services on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
• Excellent problem-solving abilities, strong communication skills, ownership mindset, and leadership capability