Hiring: Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer (OCI Object Storage) Company: Oracle Location: Santa Clara, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 10:00:44 Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Agile, Change Management, Design System, Embedded Systems, Encryption, Financial Planning, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Load Testing, Systems Design About the job Required Skills: •As a senior engineer, you will own the software design and development for major components and features of the Object Storage Service. You should be both a rock-solid coder and with familiarity of distributed systems. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. •Leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems. •Defines and enforces scalability requirements for owned components; optimizes code and data paths for high‑throughput, hyper‑scale workloads; and leverages data plane platforms for large‑scale retrieval, storage, and processing. •Designs fault‑tolerant, in‑service‑upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions, applying load‑shedding, throttling, and rate‑limiting to handle network unreliability while meeting SLOs. •Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; and designs complex validation (fault injection, brownouts), replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability. •Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness. •Implements robust security controls, executes remediation, maintains compliance documentation, and develops IaC and automation that enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks within change‑management plans. •Lead the development and implementation, and begin to architect, components of scalable distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling to meet system demands, including leveraging distributed state management tools. Qualifications: •Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. •Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only •US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. •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. •Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion •Short term disability and long term disability •Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts •Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits •401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match Compensation: •$114,600 - $234,600 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!