Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Performance

This position is based onsite in Nashville, TN.

Oracle 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.

At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We’re embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as building new innovative platforms, high performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and new container runtime that will allow us to run the full variety of OCI services.

As Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our newly established Cloud Performance Organization. This team plays a key role in addressing service inefficiencies, reducing cloud expenses, improving customer experience, and ensuring scalability.

Who are we looking for?

You have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You’ve built and operated high-scale public cloud services and have deep understanding of control plane architecture.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the performance of cloud services, identify inefficiencies, and design cost-effective solutions.
• Analyze and optimize internal tools, processes, and developer workflows to enhance operational efficiency.
• Benchmark OCI services against competitors and identify performance improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with service teams to integrate performance evaluation tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Quantify and communicate the financial impact of inefficiencies, linking performance data to business metrics.
• Develop and implement improvements in shared components, libraries, and runtime configurations.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment
• Development experience in a modern programming language, such as Java, C++, C#
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service control or data planes
• Hands-on experience in software performance profiling, analysis, and optimization.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented design and SDK development, specifically within a cloud environment
• Experience working closely with architects, principals, product, and program managers to deliver product features on time and with high quality.
• Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
• Good understanding of Linux administration and networking stack configuration
• Demonstrable technical leadership and mentorship skills
• Familiarity with JVM and benchmarking tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field (MS preferred)
• Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience driving security reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers from inception through launch
• Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules
• Proven experience in performance optimization of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.