Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

As a Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer on Oracle's Strategic Customer Engineering team, you will play a critical role in driving complex technical initiatives across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support our most strategic customers. You will work across multiple service teams and cross-functional organizations to align technical requirements, resolve complex infrastructure challenges, and lead the end-to-end execution of high-impact engineering solutions that improve customer experience, reliability, and scalability.

You will serve as a technical subject matter expert, leveraging deep knowledge of cloud technologies, distributed systems, and architectural trade-offs to influence technical decisions and drive solutions across organizational boundaries. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on engineering expertise with exceptional communication skills and a demonstrated history of leading large-scale, complex technical initiatives from design through implementation.

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: $146,300 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.
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.

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems supporting strategic customer environments.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert, influencing engineering strategy, architectural decisions, and technical standards across OCI service teams.
• Drive end-to-end execution of complex, cross-organizational engineering initiatives, ensuring technical requirements, dependencies, and deliverables are aligned.
• Identify and resolve system scalability, performance, and reliability bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure for high-throughput workloads and elastic scaling.
• Evaluate architectural trade-offs involving availability, consistency, durability, security, and performance to meet service level objectives (SLOs).
• Partner with Compute, Networking, Storage, Identity, and other OCI service teams to address cross-service dependencies and technical challenges.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation, tooling, and change management solutions that improve scalability, operational efficiency, and system resilience.
• Establish observability strategies, including telemetry, KPIs, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor system health and performance.
• Lead complex technical investigations, incident response, and root cause analysis, driving solutions that prevent recurring issues and minimize customer disruption.
• Drive engineering best practices for system correctness, data integrity, security, compliance, and operational readiness across distributed environments.
• Advise engineering leadership on technical risks and architectural decisions while mentoring engineers and promoting continuous improvement across teams.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Deep technical expertise designing and operating highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems in large-scale production environments.
• Strong programming experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar languages, with hands-on scripting and automation capabilities.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, containerization, and orchestration technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Advanced Linux expertise, including system internals, administration, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and automation across Oracle Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar distributions.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture, including compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and multi-tenant environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience with system scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, observability, and performance optimization in distributed cloud environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, including diagnosing complex infrastructure issues, conducting root cause analysis, and improving operational reliability.
• Ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively with senior engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex technical information clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Strong technical documentation skills, including architecture designs, technical specifications, operational procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.