Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer who is passionate about solving complex engineering problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services. In this hands-on technical role, you will lead the design and development of major components and features within the OCI Block Storage Service.

What you'll do

• Design and architect scalable distributed systems: Lead the design and implementation of major Block Storage components that support horizontal and vertical scaling
• Drive performance and efficiency at scale: Optimize software, data paths, and system interactions for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads
• Engineer highly reliable and durable services: Design fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, synchronization
• Design for distributed-systems failure modes: Develop systems that behave predictably during network partitions, infrastructure failures
• Ensure correctness, availability, and observability: Define functional and correctness requirements, establish KPIs and telemetry, build dashboards and alerts

What you need

• 10–18 years in devops & cloud
• Terraform
• Python
• Data structures
• C++
• Networking
• Java
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Root cause analysis
• Cloud security
• Incident response
• TCP/IP
• Performance testing
• Design systems