Oracle · 8 hours ago
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Performance
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$97K/yr - $252K/yrOracle is a world leader in cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Principal Performance Engineer to lead performance strategy and engineering across various application services and infrastructures. The role focuses on defining architecture changes, establishing methodologies, and driving investigations to enhance performance metrics.
Data GovernanceData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end performance architecture for critical services and platforms, setting strategy, standards, and best practices across applications, OS, network, storage, and hardware layers
Establish KPIs and benchmarking methodologies; build and maintain representative workloads and reproducible benchmarks
Drive systemic improvements to service and data-plane architectures
Design and build tooling for profiling, tracing, and telemetry with clear, actionable insights
Cross-organizational leadership to ensure performance is designed-in, observable, and consistent at scale
Mentor engineers, provide technical leadership and reviews, and influence multi-year roadmap and technical standards
Qualification
Required
Expertise in systems performance across application, OS, network, storage, and hardware
Expertise in operating system and network stack internals (Linux kernels, scheduling, memory/IO subsystems, TCP/IP)
Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience with performance profiling and observability
Ability to write and reason about performant code at a low level (e.g., C, raw sockets, CPU/vector instructions, memory/cache optimization)
Familiarity with high-performance IO paths; understanding of cross-region networking and latency trade-offs
BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; proven technical leadership and mentoring
Preferred
Expertise in virtualization/containers
Java performance experience: JVM/JIT/GC internals, JFR/async-profiler, and benchmarking
Low-level engineering skills in one or more of C/C++/Rust/Go, with demonstrated ability to analyze instruction-level hotspots, memory/cache behavior, and concurrency
Database or storage performance specialization (query execution, indexing, IO path optimization)
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
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$25.75BKey Investors
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