Principal Software Developer

About the Organization

Our Mission

What You'll Do

Principal Engineer

• Define architecture, design, and technical direction for large-scale telemetry services.
• Lead design reviews, guide implementation quality, and ensure long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate with partner teams across OCI Observability, Control Plane, and Developer Platform.
• Mentor engineers, raise technical standards, and foster a culture of excellence and ownership.
• Anticipate and mitigate systemic risks, ensuring reliability and resilience at global scale.

What You'll Get

• A supportive, engineering-driven culture that values innovation and technical rigor.
• Exposure to

  massive-scale distributed systems

  and deep infrastructure challenges.
• The agility of a focused team combined with the reach and stability of Oracle.
• Opportunities to expand skills across OCI's broad cloud ecosystem.
• Continuous technical development and leadership growth.
• Comprehensive benefits and a collaborative, high-caliber engineering community.

Job Responsibilities

• Define architecture and lead development of large-scale

  Monitoring and Alarming services

  handling multi-region, multi-tenant workloads.
• Design high-throughput evaluation pipelines for time-series data, optimized for low latency and fault tolerance.
• Drive the evolution of core capabilities such as

  alarm suppression, composite conditions, and intelligent correlation

  .
• Collaborate with peer teams in Telemetry to deliver integrated Observability experiences.
• Establish performance, reliability, and efficiency benchmarks for the Alarming platform.
• Mentor engineers, perform design reviews, and set technical standards across the organization.
• Lead incident analysis, root-cause investigations, and architectural remediation of complex production issues.
• Contribute to OCI-wide initiatives improving telemetry ingestion, query efficiency, and alerting reliability.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience, including 2+ years designing and leading cloud-scale systems.
• Expertise in

  distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture

  .
• Deep proficiency in at least one major programming language (Java, Go, or C#).
• Experience with one or more public clouds (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong analytical, design, and debugging skills.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and lead technical discussions across teams.
• Passion for observability, telemetry, and building systems that operate at global scale.

Career Level - IC4