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Senior Principal Software Engineer

Seattle, WA, United States

Santa Clara, CA, United States

United States

• Job Identification336711
• Job CategoryProduct Development
• Posting Date06/10/2026, 01:29 PM
• RoleIndividual Contributor
• Job TypeRegular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance?No
• Years6 to 10+ years
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languagesEnglish

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale,multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more.

At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure.We'reembarking on ambitious new initiatives such ascanonicalimplementation of core components forcontrolplanes anddata planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating ourexpertiseon building low level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI.

For this role, we are looking for technical leaders to build and deliver adatabase validation framework that will ensure the reliability of databases being used bycritical tier-0 OCI services. Thisisan exciting opportunityto workwith senior architects& leaders at OCI as well asa broaderOracle Database organization. You must bea self-motivated engineer with passion andexpertisein solving challengingsystem, data-planeleveland performance problems. You should be arock-soliddeveloper able to dive deep into low-level systems, design broad distributed system interactions for high performance, high scalecontrolplanand data plane service. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace whereyou'llbelong and be encouraged.

Responsibilities

With your exceptional technical, analytical, and leadership capabilities, you will provide technical leadership for the validation, reliability, and operational excellence of an internal key-value metadata store that underpins Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) control plane services. You will define the validation strategy for critical database infrastructure, collaborate across multiple engineering organizations, and drive the development of scalable validation frameworks that improve service availability, resilience, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of comprehensive reliability validation methodologies that ensure database platforms continue to meet the availability, scalability, consistency, and performance expectations of OCI's mission-critical cloud services. You will work closely with architects, database engineers, and service teams toidentifyreliability risks, influence product direction, andestablishengineering best practices that proactively detect and prevent production issues before customer impact.

Your responsibilities include:

• 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.

• Define and drive the long-term validation strategy for distributed database infrastructure supporting OCI control plane services.

• Design, develop, and automate large-scale validation frameworks for fault injection, high availability, disaster recovery, database upgrades, patching, migration, and operational resilience.

• Develop production-scale workload generation and validation infrastructure to evaluate database behavior under realistic customer workloads and complex failure scenarios.

• Design comprehensive data consistency and correctness validation mechanisms to ensure data integrity across failover, recovery, upgrade, and migration workflows.

• Partner with database engineering, cloud infrastructure, and service teams to investigate complex reliability issues, perform root cause analysis,validatecorrective actions, and improve overall platform robustness.

• Drive engineering excellence byestablishingvalidation standards, operational best practices, automation strategies, and quality metrics across multiple organizations.

• Influence architecture and design decisions byprovidingtechnical guidance on database reliability, scalability, performance, and operational readiness.

• Lead cross-organizational initiatives that improve service availability, reduce operational risk, and increase engineering productivity through automation and continuous validation.

• Mentor senior engineers and serve as a technical leader within the organization, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

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: $135,200 to $306,400 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.

Career Level - IC5

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True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

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Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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