Principal Software Development Engineer

Job Listing ID: 4299921 Job Title: Principal Software Development Engineer

Application Deadline: Open Until FilledJob Location: Salem

Date Posted: 06/27/2025Hours Worked Per Week: Not Provided

Shift: Not Provided

Duration of Job: Either Full or Part Time, more than 6 months

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Job Summary:

Job Description

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can allow you to build and operate a massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for innovative, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve complex problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. Our engineers have a significant technical and business impact at every level, designing and building innovative new systems to power our customers' business-critical applications.

We are reimagining what's possible with a true cloud-native database to provide unparalleled performance and durability with our new large-scale distributed services and storage backend. Our services expose highly available, high-performance storage volumes and backups to our elastic compute customers.

We're looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed database systems, storage infrastructure, transaction processing, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle, you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. An engineer at any level can have a significant technical and business impact

Responsibilities

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in defining and evolving standard software engineering practices, architecture and procedures. You will be responsible for defining, developing, designing, and debugging Cloud Scale Distributed Systems and Services, and you will also provide mentorship for other engineers. Work is novel and complex, involving the application of advanced technical skills in an area of specialization. You will be leading contributor individually in the area and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.

You will own software development of significant features in Oracle Cloud's Database Service offerings. You should be comfortable with development in Java/Python/Terraform and be willing to learn new languages as needed. You should value simplicity and scale, work well in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Preferred qualifications:

3-5+ years of professional software development experience or 4+ years with an advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.

Strong technical skills with a proven record of designing and developing cloud-scale systems, highly available distributed systems, or databases.

Deep understanding of Computer Science basics like Operating System Internals, Networking, Architecture

Strong experience with data structures, algorithms, concurrency, multi-threading, object-oriented design

Deep knowledge of database internals, database management, and life cycle management is a huge plus.

Proficiency in developing large production projects written in Java, Python

Knowledge or experience working with open source databases like PostgreSQL is a plus

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Job Requirements

Experience Required: See Job Summary

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