Principal Software Engineer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds and operates cloud services that help customers solve complex technical and business challenges. OCI Queue provides managed, durable messaging that enables applications to communicate asynchronously, absorb traffic spikes, and process work reliably.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer who enjoys building distributed systems and solving challenging problems in messaging, storage, concurrency, and production reliability. You will help shape OCI Queue’s architecture and develop capabilities that balance durability, correctness, performance, scalability, and operational simplicity.

You will work across customer-facing APIs, queue management workflows, request routing, and replicated storage. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with ownership from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production operations.

In this role, you will:

- Lead the design and implementation of distributed messaging capabilities, including ordered delivery, deduplication, message lifecycle management, and workload isolation.

- Improve service performance, capacity utilization, availability, and recovery under failures.

- Design reliable APIs and durable workflows, maintaining compatibility across service components and deployments.

- Drive automated testing, failure injection, performance qualification, and safe production rollouts.

- Investigate complex production issues, contribute to on-call operations, and deliver lasting reliability improvements.

- Partner with product management and engineering teams to evaluate tradeoffs, establish technical direction, and mentor engineers through design and code reviews

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, or comparable professional experience.

- At least six years developing production software, with substantial experience delivering distributed systems or cloud services.

- Proficiency in Java or Go, including concurrent programming, debugging, and performance analysis.

- Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, operating systems, networking, and storage fundamentals.

- Practical knowledge of distributed-system behavior, including consistency, replication, retries, idempotency, partial failures, and recovery.

- Experience designing service APIs and evolving interfaces without disrupting existing consumers.

- Experience establishing automated unit, integration, and performance tests, supported by CI/CD practices.

- Experience operating production services: monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and participation in on-call rotations.

- Demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering work, communicate architectural decisions, and collaborate across teams.

- Sound engineering judgment when using AI-assisted development tools, including independent verification of correctness, security, and maintainability.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building messaging systems, distributed storage, event-processing platforms, or similar infrastructure services.

- Familiarity with technologies such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Azure Service Bus, or OCI Queue.

- Experience with consensus protocols such as Paxos or Raft, replicated state machines, durable logs, checkpoints, and crash recovery.

- Understanding of ordering guarantees, producer deduplication, delivery acknowledgements, visibility timeouts, and dead-letter handling.

- Experience with partitioning, load balancing, backpressure, resource quotas, capacity planning, and online workload migration.

- Experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, metadata caching, and asynchronous control-plane workflows.

- Experience profiling JVM or Go applications and diagnosing Linux networking, CPU, memory, and storage bottlenecks.

- Familiarity with containers, infrastructure automation, Terraform, and staged deployment practices.

- Experience designing secure multi-tenant services, including authorization, encryption, tenant isolation, and operational safeguards.

- A record of influencing architecture across teams and improving engineering practices through mentoring, reviews, and clear technical documentation.

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: $114,600 to $234,600 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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.