Senior Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation

Join to apply for the Senior Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation role at Oracle.

Job Description OCI (Oracle Cloud) 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

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 U.S. 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 – $251,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short-term 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 details

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave :  72 hours at hire, refilling each calendar year up to 112 hours

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee stock purchase plan

Financial planning and group legal

Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance

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.

J-18808-Ljbffr