Oracle · 1 month ago
Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation
Seattle, WA, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
6+ years expOracle is a leading technology company focused on cloud solutions and AI infrastructure. The Principal Software Engineer will lead the architecture and development of innovative storage technologies, ensuring high performance and reliability across distributed systems.
Data GovernanceData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSSoftware
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
Company
Oracle
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$25.75BKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
2025-09-24Post Ipo Debt· $18B
2025-02-03Post Ipo Debt· $7.75B
1986-03-12IPO
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