Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 24, 2026. Opower scores B on the Alion truth index.
As a member of the software engineering division, you will lead the design, development, debugging, and improvement of software supporting OCI’s hardware repair platform. You will lead delivery and contribute to the architecture of distributed-system components, defining scalability, reliability, and performance requirements for the components you own. You will provide technical guidance to other engineers, evolve software architecture to meet changing needs, and ensure services are ready to operate reliably in production.
Minimum Qualifications:
Meet one of the following education and software development experience combinations:
- 11 years of experience in software development; or
- A bachelor’s degree, including a B.Tech, in a relevant field and 7 years of experience in software development; or
- A master’s degree, including an M.Tech, in a relevant field and 5 years of experience in software development; or
- A doctorate in a relevant field and 3 years of experience in software development.
Relevant fields include Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
In addition:
- 3 years of academic or professional experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OCI.
- 5 years of experience in testing and automation at the system level.
- 4 years of experience delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Java and strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills, including using operational data to identify issues and guide improvements.
- Experience developing, testing, and integrating secure REST APIs and services, with knowledge of modern web application development and prototyping.
- Experience designing automation, writing and maintaining scripts such as Python or Perl, and developing software test plans and quality assurance practices.
- Experience conducting in-depth code reviews, using source control, estimating software effort, and delivering software through agile development practices.
- Ability to assess security vulnerabilities, apply security and compliance requirements, and provide technical guidance while collaborating across teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
- Lead development of owned components and contribute to their architecture, defining requirements for elastic scaling, throughput, availability, and durability.
- Design fault-tolerant services that support in-service updates, make informed consistency and availability trade-offs during network partitions, and use load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting to meet service level objectives.
- Define operational metrics and telemetry, design performance and failure-scenario tests, and establish operational readiness.
- Serve in support rotations and guide incident response and root-cause investigations. Develop infrastructure automation and safe update and rollback plans; implement security controls, remediation, and compliance documentation.
- Coordinate delivery of moderately complex initiatives, mentor engineers, improve practices across teams, and contribute to candidate interviews and hiring recommendations.
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 to $234,600 per annum. 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.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.