Principal Core Infrastructure Software Engineer

Job summary

The Principal Core Infrastructure Software Engineer is a Senior Staff-level, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for defining, building, and operating next-generation AI systems on Ora*** Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate combines deep distributed systems experience with practical AI-native engineering, including orchestration of LLMs,
• for owned services and components.
• Build fault-tolerant systems that support redundancy, replication, automated failover, and in-service upgrades.
• Optimize services for high-throughput, low-latency, and large-scale cloud workloads.
• Design systems that handle network unreliability, service disruptions, and partition scenarios while meeting SLOs.
• Establish telemetry, KPIs, dashboards, and alerts to monitor service health, performance, reliability, and customer impact.
• Drive performance testing, load testing, fault injection, brownout testing, and other validation strategies to ensure correctness and resiliency.
• Implement secure infrastructure controls for multi-tenant cloud environments, including access controls, encryption, and remediation of security gaps.
• Develop automation, Infrastructure as Code, and deployment tooling to support safe patching, updates, rollbacks, and operational recovery.
• Take ownership of production operations, including troubleshooting, incident response, root cause analysis, and ongoing service improvements.
• Strengthen operational readiness by improving runbooks, monitoring, change management, deployment safety, and recovery processes.
• Collaborate with partner teams across OCI to align architecture, dependencies, and service

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