Senior Principal Network Reliability Engineer - Network Region Build (NRB)

Location: Seattle, WA, United States

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Principal Network Reliability Engineer, you will:

• Provide technical leadership for the deployment, operation, and lifecycle management of OCI’s global network infrastructure.
• Define and drive the long-term strategy for network reliability, operational excellence, and infrastructure scalability.
• Lead complex engineering initiatives supporting AI infrastructure, new OCI Regions, backbone expansion, and large-scale network deployments.
• Influence architecture and technical decisions across Network Engineering, Network Automation, Infrastructure Engineering, Product Engineering, and Operations.
• Champion automation by establishing engineering standards, identifying strategic opportunities, and partnering with software engineering teams to deliver scalable automation solutions.
• Drive systemic improvements that eliminate recurring operational issues through engineering, architecture, automation, and process improvements.
• Establish engineering standards, deployment methodologies, operational practices, and reliability metrics used across multiple organizations.
• Serve as the senior technical advisor during large-scale production events, executive escalations, and critical customer issues.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and influence vendor and internal technology roadmaps.
• Partner with Product Management, PMO, Capacity Planning, Construction, Hardware Engineering, and Operations to successfully deliver network infrastructure at hyperscale.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders while fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering capabilities to improve technical analysis, operational planning, documentation, and engineering productivity while ensuring sound engineering judgment and technical quality.

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

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Lead the Future of OCI Network Reliability and AI Infrastructure Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Network Region Build (NRB) and help lead the engineering organization responsible for deploying and operating the network infrastructure powering OCI Regions and next-generation AI data centers. The NRB organization delivers greenfield infrastructure, enables new OCI Regions, and supports some of the world’s largest AI deployments across data center fabrics, backbone, optical transport, metro fiber, edge networking, dedicated cloud, sovereign cloud, and multi-cloud environments. Travel Requirement: This role requires approximately 25% to 50% travel to OCI data centers and major AI deployment locations. Travel supports infrastructure deployments, operational readiness, architecture reviews, executive engagements, customer escalations, and collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams during critical milestones.