Senior Principal Software Engineer

Job summary

Ora*** 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• include:
• 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
• Define and drive the long-term validation strategy for distributed database infrastructure supporting OCI control plane services.
• Design, develop, and automate large-scale validation frameworks for fault injection, high availability, disaster recovery, database upgrades, patching, migration, and operational resilience.
• Develop production-scale workload generation and validation infrastructure to evaluate database behavior under realistic customer workloads and complex failure scenarios.
• Design comprehensive data consistency and correctness validation mechanisms to ensure data integrity across failover, recovery, upgrade, and migration workflows.
• Partner with database engineering, cloud infrastructure, and service teams to investigate complex reliability issues, perform root cause analysis, validate corrective actions, and improve overall platform robustness.
• Drive engineering excellence by establishing validation standards, operational best practices, automation strategies, and quality metrics across multiple organizations.
• Influence architecture and design decisions by providing technical guidance on database reliability, scalability, performance, and operational readiness.
• Lead cross-organizational initiatives that improve service availability, reduce operational risk, and increase engineering productivity through automation and continuous validation.

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