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Principal Member of Technical Staff - Java, Block Storage Control Plane

Oracle
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/12/2026
Job Description

Customers run their businesses on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud, leveraging an ever-expanding set of industry-leading cloud-based services such as security, networking, compute, storage, and database. OCI's Block Volumes service operates at massive scale, delivering exabytes of data across 60 regions.

The Block Storage Control Plane team owns the Block Volumes public API and back-end distributed orchestration layer which ensures customers consistently experience highly available and performant management of their boot and data volumes, backups, and volume replication. We are seeking hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed systems, large-scale storage, and scaling services to meet the rapid growth in customer demand that OCI is experiencing.

As a member of our team, you will own the software design and development for core components and features that orchestrate the Block Storage Service. You will leverage your strong programming and distributed systems experience to dive deep into any part of the stack, including low-level systems, to design and implement broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to continuously learn.Come join the team that drives OCI's best-in-class Storage platform through its next evolutionary phase.

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/storage/block-volumes/

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

We’re looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services. As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will own the software design and development for major components of the Block Storage Service Infrastructure. You should be both a rock solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the Control Plane stack and low level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 10 years of experience delivering large scale, highly available distributed systems and backend services.
  • Extensive experience developing clean code in Java (or similar object oriented language), as well as scripting languages such as Python.
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi-threading, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Strong understanding of storage systems (block storage preferred) and distributed persistence technologies.
  • Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
  • Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
  • Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized storage infrastructure, data management


Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 - $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

  • 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


The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

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 accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com 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.

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