Senior Principal Software Engineer - Network & Storage Acceleration

Location: Seattle, WA, United States

Build the Future of Cloud at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we enable mission-critical applications for the world’s top enterprises, delivering hyper-scale, secure, multi-tenant cloud services across 50+ global regions. As leaders in cloud innovation, OCI is driving transformation with dedicated, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge computing deployments—redefining what's possible for the cloud ecosystem.

About Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO)
Within TSO, our mission is to maximize customer choice and transparency while delivering high-value cloud solutions. We are at the strategic center of OCI’s most ambitious projects—architecting and delivering next-generation platforms and frameworks to empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services.

What You’ll Be Building and Leading

• End-to-End Solutions: Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.
• Foundational Frameworks: Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most demanding workloads.
• Performance at Scale: Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.
• Strategic Innovation: Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps.

Why Join Us?

• Industry Impact: Shape the direction and standards of the global public cloud by leading initiatives with large-scale customer and organizational impact.
• Personal Growth: Accelerate your career at the intersection of technical and strategic leadership, with opportunities to influence OCI's top priorities and outcomes.
• Collaborative Leadership: Partner with and mentor diverse, world-class engineering teams while enjoying autonomy and strong executive support.
• Culture of Excellence: Help foster an inclusive, high-performance workplace where innovators of all backgrounds can thrive, drive change, and deliver excellence.

Who We’re Looking For
We’re seeking visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud. As a recognized expert, you will deliver complex solutions for OCI’s networking and storage needs, mentor senior engineers, drive strategy, and be responsible for cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services. You are respected for providing technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the organization. Your influence reaches across product, engineering, and operational teams, and you routinely collaborate with executive leadership to set and realize long-term strategy.

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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We are looking for a Senior Principal Engineer skilled in DPU Programming and cutting-edge cloud infrastructure