Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Performance

*This position is based onsite in Nashville, TN

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more. 

At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We’re embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as building new innovative platforms, high performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and new container runtime that will allow us to run the full variety of OCI services, including our most demanding, high-performance, high-availability services.  We’re also working on new ingenuities such as providing canonical implementation of core components for data planes through a data-plane runtime framework, developing a remote persistent storage solution with the latency and performance comparable to that of a local nVME drive, and developing standards and tools to identify critical performance improvements across OCI data-planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating our expertise on building low level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI.

As Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our newly established Cloud Performance Organization. This team plays a key role in addressing service inefficiencies, reducing cloud expenses, improving customer experience, and ensuring scalability. Your work will focus on optimizing the performance of OCI’s critical components, internal tools, and applications while fostering a culture of performance engineering.

This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new cloud services from the ground up. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

Who are we looking for?

You have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You’ve built and operated high-scale public cloud services and have deep understanding of control plane architecture. You work on most projects and tasks independently and extend technical leadership to development teams.

In this role, you will enable development teams by driving design of major service components, working with engineering managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to more junior team members. You can go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping.

You are technically strong and get a lot done. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You’ve made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument your service. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities 

• Evaluate the performance of cloud services, identify inefficiencies, and design cost-effective solutions.
• Analyze and optimize internal tools, processes, and developer workflows to enhance operational efficiency.
• Benchmark OCI services against competitors and identify performance improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with service teams to integrate performance evaluation tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Quantify and communicate the financial impact of inefficiencies, linking performance data to business metrics.
• Develop and implement improvements in shared components, libraries, and runtime configurations (e.g., Java runtime, SDKs, and images). 

Qualifications:

• 5 to 10 years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment
• Development experience in a modern programming language, such as Java, C , C#
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service control or data planes
• Hands-on experience in software performance profiling, analysis, and optimization. 
• Deep understanding of object-oriented design and SDK development, specifically within a cloud environment
• Experience working closely with architects, principals, product, and program managers to deliver product features on time and with high quality.
• Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
• Good understanding of Linux administration and networking stack configuration
• Demonstrable technical leadership and mentorship skills
• Familiarity with JVM and benchmarking tools.  

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field (MS preferred)
• Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience driving security reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers from inception through launch
• Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules
• Proven experience in performance optimization of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.

Salary : $96,800 - $223,400