Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds high-performance GPU platforms for demanding AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads. We are seeking a Consulting Member of Technical Staff to join the Raw Metal Cloud (RMC) team and help deliver reliable, scalable AI infrastructure.

RMC builds the software platform that manages the AI infrastructure lifecycle, from hardware onboarding and inventory through networking, provisioning, validation, rack certification, and customer handoff. Our work connects physical infrastructure with distributed orchestration services, enabling GPU capacity to become ready for customer workloads efficiently and reliably.

As a technical leader on the RMC team, you will own the architecture, design, development, and operation of major software components. You will build services and automation that coordinate infrastructure bring-up, track hardware and workflow state, validate system health, and accelerate fault diagnosis and recovery. Your work will help reduce manual intervention, improve infrastructure readiness, and increase the speed and predictability of GPU capacity delivery.

This role requires a strong software engineer who can reason about distributed systems and investigate problems across engineering, networking, hardware interfaces, and service orchestration. You will partner with engineers across Compute, Networking, Security, Data Center Engineering, Hardware Development, and Operations to solve complex infrastructure challenges.

We value clear technical judgment, simple designs, ownership, and collaboration. You will have the opportunity to influence RMC’s technical direction, mentor engineers, and build software with a direct impact on OCI’s AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of scalable distributed services for RMC’s infrastructure lifecycle platform.
• Build reliable workflows for hardware discovery, inventory, configuration, provisioning, validation, certification, and handoff.
• Develop automation for GPU and server health checks, burn-in testing, diagnostics, triage, and remediation.
• Design orchestration systems that handle long-running operations, retries, partial failures, dependencies, and recovery across large hardware fleets.
• Establish consistent infrastructure state and readiness tracking through APIs, data models, telemetry, and auditable workflow transitions.
• Investigate complex issues across services, Linux hosts, management controllers, GPUs, and networking components; turn recurring problems into durable software improvements.
• Define and improve service reliability, performance, observability, security, and operational practices.
• Drive technical decisions across teams, lead design and code reviews, and mentor engineers.
• Own components throughout the software development lifecycle, including deployment, production operation, and continuous improvement.

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience designing and delivering production software, including at least six years building and operating large-scale systems.
• Strong programming skills in multiple languages such as Java, Python, Go, C, C++, or shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of operating systems, computer networks, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing for fault tolerance, concurrency, state management, and recovery in distributed environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives from requirements and architecture through production delivery.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills, with the ability to work independently and across organizational boundaries.
• A record of technical ownership, sound engineering judgment, and mentoring other engineers.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with system & network  internals, system debugging, performance analysis, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with bare metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle management, or fleet orchestration.
• Familiarity with GPU server architecture, rack-scale systems, firmware, and out-of-band management interfaces.
• Experience with high-performance networking technologies such as RDMA, RoCE, or InfiniBand.
• Experience building automated hardware validation, burn-in, benchmarking, or diagnostic systems.
• Experience designing durable workflow engines, event-driven services, or systems that reconcile desired and observed infrastructure state.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating public cloud control plane or data plane services.
• Experience improving infrastructure delivery through measurable gains in reliability, throughput, and operational efficiency

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.


Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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