Oracle

Principal Software Engineer

Posted On

Oct. 21, 2025

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Experience Level

Professional

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

April 19, 2026

Job Description

We are building a new Software Assurance Gateway team at OCI. Our mission is to build and operate a set of gateway services to ensure the security and integrity of the services running within a customer’s tenancy. The team will develop, maintain and operationalize this new class of services with a high degree of resiliency, scalability and performance to meet the critical business needs of our customers.

Principal Software Development Engineer
Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

As a Principal Software Engineer / Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will work with teams of software engineers responsible for the software design, development, and operations for our new and existing products. You should be able to architect broad systems interactions, be hands-on, be able to dive deep into any part of the stack and have a good sense of cloud infrastructure and networking knowledge. You should value simplicity and impact, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Our Principal engineers are also the people who can work independently and provide technical leadership to the broader organization. You should have experience developing and operating high-scale services, and an understanding of how to make these cloud-scale services resilient. The ideal candidate will be technically strong and productive; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements. You understand operational excellence and know-how to infuse a culture of being proactive within your team. You recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data-driven approaches.

Basic Qualifications

BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience
6-10+ years of total experience in software development
Demonstrated ability to write great code using Java, GoLang, C#, or similar OO languages
Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle
Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure
Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one livesite servicing
Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive
Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market-leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands

Preferred Qualifications

Experience as technical lead on a large scale cloud service
Hands-on experience developing and maintaining services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
Experience working on Kubernetes
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) languages, preferably Terraform
Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL)
Strong knowledge of Computer Networking (OSI layers, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, Routers, Gateways, Subnets, etc.)
Knowledge of Linux internals, Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills
Familiarity with host virtualization technologies (KVM, Containers, Docker, etc.)
Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)
Experience with hiring, mentorship and raising the talent bar across the organization

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