Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer in OCI Network Automation team, to design, implement and optimize components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability. Deliver features and leverage distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and review peers' implementations for quality and scalability compliance. Proactively detect and mitigate issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; author runbooks and participate in incident response and RCAs.

• Career Level
• IC4

As a member of software engineering at OCI, you will:

• Design and develop services, automated workflows and infrastructure to manage a growing fleet of networking devices
• Deliver highly available and secure OCI Networking infrastructure
• Own onboarding of next-gen network technologies, deployment tooling, patching, fleet monitoring, automation, and access controls
• Collaborate across OCI to ensure networking is best-in-class

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain technologies to automate distributed fleet management
• Develop deployment and monitoring tools for scale and performance
• Enhance deployment efficiency across global regions through automation
• Participate in on-call rotation to monitor fleet and services
• Improve operational capabilities via runbooks, alarming, and tooling

Qualifications Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in software development
• 5+ years of Linux System Engineering experience
• 5+ years with Python, BASH, or Java
• 1+ years of DevOps experience
• Proficient with build tools/pipelines (e.g., Team City, Maven, Make)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in CI/CD environments

• Agile development experience

• Prior cloud infrastructure experience

• Experience automating networking device management