Oracle logo

Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle
Remote
Seattle, WARemote· about 2 hours ago

Straight from Oracle’s careers page. Apply on the company site — no recruiter, no middleman.

Explore more remote Software Engineer jobs — salaries, top companies, and the latest openings.See all →

Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Location: Seattle, WA, United States

As Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a Principal Software Engineer (IC4) to join our Database and Host Automation team. This team builds the services and host agents that manage database infrastructure at scale, supporting provisioning, lifecycle management, live database migrations, maintenance, recovery, and region bootstrap.
This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new automation services and secure host execution capabilities from the ground up. Your work will connect durable, fleet-wide orchestration with reliable database and operating system operations on individual hosts, improving availability, consistency, and operational safety while minimizing customer disruption.
You will independently drive complex projects from architecture through production operation, collaborating with database, infrastructure, and security teams. As a technical leader, you will guide design decisions, deliver robust software, mentor engineers, and improve engineering and operational practices across the broader organization.

Leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems. Defines and enforces scalability requirements for owned components; optimizes code and data paths for high‑throughput, hyper‑scale workloads; and leverages data plane platforms for large‑scale retrieval, storage, and processing. Designs fault‑tolerant, in‑service‑upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions, applying load‑shedding, throttling, and rate‑limiting to handle network unreliability while meeting SLOs. Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; and designs complex validation (fault injection, brownouts), replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability. Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness. Implements robust security controls, executes remediation, maintains compliance documentation, and develops IaC and automation that enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks within change‑management plans.

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

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.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

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.

Design and build OCI’s next-generation database and host automation services. As an IC4 Principal Software Engineer, drive distributed system design, reliable database lifecycle automation, operational excellence, and technical mentorship.
Royal Bank of Canada logo

Royal Bank of Canada

Principal AI Engineer, AI DLC Platform (Remote)

Remote
Toronto, ON
✓ From careers page· 31 minutes ago
Royal Bank of Canada logo

Royal Bank of Canada

Data Engineer (Remote)

Remote
Toronto, ON
✓ From careers page· 33 minutes ago
Royal Bank of Canada logo

Royal Bank of Canada

Data Engineer (Remote)

Remote
Halifax, NS
✓ From careers page· 33 minutes ago
Royal Bank of Canada logo

Royal Bank of Canada

Data Engineer (Remote)

Remote
Vancouver, BC
✓ From careers page· 33 minutes ago

Discover More than 100,000 Hidden Remote Jobs Before Everyone Else

Unlock All Remote Jobs Today

Simple pricing. Big savings on Quarterly and Yearly.

Monthly Access

$19/month
  • Instant access to fresh remote jobs from 500+ companies
  • New opportunities added hourly, often 3-7 days before anywhere else
  • Advanced filtering by role type, stack, pay, and location
  • Priority customer support
Start 7-day trial — $2.95
Most Popular

Yearly Access

$59/year
  • Everything in Monthly
  • Save $169 (~74%) vs paying monthly
  • Average job search takes ~6 months - get covered for the whole journey
  • Less than the cost of one lunch per month for competitive advantage
  • Equivalent to just ~$4.92/month
Start 7-day trial — $2.95