Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Location: BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, India

Job Summary

We are seeking a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer who is passionate about solving complex engineering problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services.

In this hands-on technical role, you will lead the design and development of major components and features within the OCI Block Storage Service. You will architect scalable and elastic distributed systems, optimize critical code and data paths, and design systems that maintain correctness, durability, availability, and performance at hyperscale.

You will also play an important role in operational excellence by improving observability, diagnosing complex production issues, strengthening security and compliance, driving automation, and mentoring other engineers.

Success in this role requires strong programming fundamentals, deep distributed systems expertise, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to work effectively across both detailed implementation and broad system-level design.

About Us

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Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer – Block Storage About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the Block Storage Team Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers cloud services designed to help organizations run demanding enterprise and cloud-native workloads securely, reliably, and at scale. The OCI Block Storage team builds and operates highly available, durable, scalable storage services that support mission-critical workloads. The team works on complex engineering challenges across distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, reliability, performance, security, and automation. As part of this team, you will work with experienced engineers to design and evolve core components of the Block Storage Service. You will operate across the technology stack—from low-level systems and data paths to large-scale distributed system architecture—while maintaining a strong focus on simplicity, scalability, operational excellence, and customer experience.