Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation

**Job Description** OCI (Oracle Cloud) AI Infrastructure Innovation team is inventing the next generation of storage technologies. You will lead architecture and hands-on development across key layers: distributed processing, transactions, consensus, and storage engines. If you thrive at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, database internals, and cloud platforms, this role offers the opportunity to advance the state of the art. 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. Qualifications 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. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience. **About Us** As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow's technology to tackle today's challenges. We've partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector-and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity. We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all. Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs. We're committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing [email protected] or by calling +1 888 404 2494 in the United States. Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.