Senior Principal Software Engineer

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Seattle, WA, United States

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Job Identification: 336717 Job Category: Product Development Posting Date: 10/02/2026, 12:19 PM Role: Individual Contributor Job Type: Regular Employee Security Clearance: No Years: 6 to 10+ years Languages: English

Job Description As a Lead member of the Block Storage Data plane team, you will own the software design and development for multiple core components and features on the core I/O path of the Block Storage Service. It would be best if you were a strong programmer and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems and design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

We’re looking for hands-on senior engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services. As a lead engineer, you will own the software design and development for major components of the Block Storage Service Infrastructure. You will be technically leading projects with a set of other engineers, while also mentoring them. You should be both a rock solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the data plane stack and low level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience delivering large scale, highly available distributed systems and infrastructure services.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including driving architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-team technical initiatives.
• Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, production-grade distributed services at scale.
• Extensive experience with systems design and developing clean code in C++ and scripting languages such as Python, etc.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi-threading, I/O paths, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of block storage systems and distributed persistence technologies.
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Experience building and operating modern CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment workflows for large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.

Responsibilities

• As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

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• US: Hiring Range in USD from: 135,200 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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Short term disability and long term disability

• Life insurance and AD&D

• Supplemental life insurance

• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried 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.

• 11 paid holidays

• 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.

• Paid parental leave

• Adoption assistance

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Financial planning and group legal

• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

• Career Level: IC5

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