Senior Principal Engineer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI),

Oracle Generative AI Applications team

Your Opportunity

Senior Principal Engineer (Consulting Member Technical Staff)

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience as a software engineer in applications and distributed systems development

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud (IaaS, PaaS or SaaS)

• Experience with at least one high level language such as Java (preferred) or Python

• Expertise with micro-services and API based development with deep knowledge of Identity, Security, Storage and Container technologies

• Experience driving technical design, operations and infrastructure decisions

• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills
• Excellent judgment to influence technical roadmap direction, features, and priorities
• Bachelor / Master's degree or Ph.D in Computer Science, Computer related technical discipline

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or knowledge of ML operations, ML pipelines, LLMs, Generative AI or Agentic AI
• Familiarity with tools like ChatGPT, Copilots and/or agentic AI protocols like MCP

Responsibilities

As a Consulting Member of the software engineering division, you will participate in all activities of development and operations of OCI Generative Applications.

• Technical Leadership:Provide thought leadership and technical guidance to development and operations teams on best practices, cloud infrastructure, Service Architecture of Generative AI services
• Performance Optimization:Identify performance bottlenecks and apply necessary optimizations to enhance service performance and scalability.
• Security Management:Ensure the security of cloud solutions by designing and implementing secure architectures, performing risk assessments, and adhering to best practices for identity management and data protection.
• Disaster Recovery and High Availability:Design and implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies for cloud-based systems and applications.
• Collaboration & Documentation:Work closely with other architects, engineers, and stakeholders to develop and maintain system designs, architecture diagrams, and documentation. Work with applied scientists and address external and internal shareholder's product challenges
• Innovation:Stay current with the latest advancements in cloud technologies, Generative AI, Agentic Platform, Multi Agent System and Tooling and evaluate their applicability to improve infrastructure solutions and increase customer adoption
• Compliance and Governance:Ensure compliance with industry standards and organizational policies regarding data privacy, security, and cloud governance.
• Operation Excellence: Troubleshoot, mitigate and resolve performance and design issues and incidents in production carve out runbooks, contribute to runbooks and present in operations review forums, Provide on-call manager OCI Generative AI Services to customers to manage service outage and swiftness to recovery
• Hiring and Enablement :Participate in talent hiring and talent development, including mentorship

Career Level - IC4