Principal Network Developer

Location: Seattle, WA, United States

As a Principal Network Development Engineer within NAT, you will serve as a senior technical leader for network acquisition, connectivity delivery, and activation across OCI’s global infrastructure. You will guide the engineering execution of connectivity supporting OCI regions, AI infrastructure, capacity expansion, backbone growth, and strategic network deployments.

You will operate at the intersection of network architecture, telecommunications, optical infrastructure, service providers, data center engineering, deployment, and operations. Your scope will span carrier circuits, dark and lit fiber, DWDM and wavelength services, optical transport, Internet transit, peering, backbone connectivity, cross-connects, and data center interconnects. You will translate complex network designs and business requirements into clear technical specifications, implementation approaches, and acceptance criteria for internal teams and infrastructure partners.

At the Principal level, you will lead engineering decisions across programs and deployments, resolve ambiguous technical requirements, and evaluate tradeoffs involving capacity, performance, resiliency, physical route diversity, operational supportability, and delivery constraints. You will partner with architecture and engineering teams to identify implementation gaps early and use delivery and operational experience to influence future designs, technical standards, and supplier requirements.

You will establish the technical requirements for circuit acceptance, fiber and optical validation, turn-up, activation, and production readiness. You will guide teams in evaluating test evidence, resolving deficiencies, and documenting readiness decisions, exceptions, and remediation requirements before operational handoff. As a senior technical escalation point, you will lead the resolution of complex Layer 1 through Layer 3 issues across OCI teams and external providers, drive root cause analysis, and ensure recurring failures result in corrective actions and engineering improvements.

You will work closely with Program Managers to assess technical risks, dependencies, blockers, and recovery options across the delivery portfolio. You will strengthen NAT’s engineering practices through reusable standards, Methods of Procedure, runbooks, acceptance frameworks, accurate infrastructure records, and clear operational handoffs. You will also guide the use of automation, scripting, telemetry, database management tools, and AI-assisted engineering to improve validation, troubleshooting, data quality, and delivery efficiency while maintaining engineering rigor and validating outputs.

This role requires deep network engineering expertise, sound technical judgment, and the ability to drive complex outcomes across organizations and external suppliers. You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards across NAT, with an emphasis on repeatable practices that improve connectivity quality, reliability, and readiness at global scale.

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As a Principal Network Development Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical leader for network acquisition and connectivity delivery across OCI's global infrastructure. You will operate at the intersection of network architecture, telecommunications, optical infrastructure, service providers, data center engineering, deployment, and operations. You will take complex connectivity requirements and turn them into technically sound, deployable solutions while leading engineering decisions through delivery, validation, activation, and production readiness. This role requires deep network engineering expertise, strong technical leadership, and the ability to drive complex problems across organizations and external suppliers.