Oracle · 9 hours ago
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$97K/yr - $252K/yrOracle is a world leader in cloud solutions, committed to innovation and inclusivity. The Senior Principal Software Engineer will lead the architecture and development of next-generation storage technologies, focusing on distributed systems and cloud platforms.
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Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end architecture, system design, and implementation for distributed storage platforms
Innovate on query processing, transaction, and IO performance, and work across different components - query planning/optimization, distributed execution engine, index and storage engine
Develop production-grade, high-performance software features with rigorous durability, correctness, observability, and security
Define performance goals and success metrics; design benchmarks and conduct large-scale experiments to validate throughput and latency
Define consistency, replication, and recovery strategies
Collaborate across storage, networking, compute, and control-plane teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions on OCI
Mentor engineers, provide technical leadership and reviews, and influence multi-year roadmap and technical standards
Qualification
Required
Deep expertise in distributed systems with hands-on delivery of large-scale, fault-tolerant, strongly consistent services
Experience building distributed execution engines
Proven ability to design for global scale: sharding/partitioning, placement policies, rebalancing, and multi-region replication
Strong software engineering background with performance profiling, correctness testing, and rigorous code quality
Cloud architecture experience on a major public cloud, including observability, orchestration, and incident response
BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; proven technical leadership and mentoring
Preferred
Familiarity with high-performance IO paths; understanding of cross-region networking and latency trade-offs
Strong foundation in consensus and transactions
Expertise with observability at scale: tracing, metrics, logs, eBPF/perf, chaos/failure testing, and SLO-driven operations
Knowledge of AI/HPC workload patterns and their implications for storage, query processing, and consistency models
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
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.
11 paid holidays
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.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
Company
Oracle
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Founded in 1977
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$25.75BKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2025-09-24Post Ipo Debt· $18B
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