Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We're embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as building new innovative platforms, high performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and new container runtime that will allow us to run the full variety of OCI services, including our most demanding, high-performance, high-availability services. We're also working on providing canonical implementation of core components for data planes through a data-plane runtime framework, developing a remote persistent storage solution with the latency and performance comparable to that of a local nVME drive, and developing standards and tools to identify critical performance improvements across OCI data-planes.

System Design & Architecture

• Lead development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads.
• Define scalability requirements, optimize performance, and leverage distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
• Design fault-tolerant, highly available systems using redundancy, replication, failover, load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting.
• Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to ensure reliability and performance.
• Design performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing, and implement replication and synchronization for correctness and availability.

Operational Excellence

• Proactively diagnose production issues, guide incident response and root cause analysis, and ensure operational readiness.
• Enable in-service maintenance and upgrades with minimal customer impact.
• Mentor engineers in troubleshooting and operational practices.

Security & Compliance

• Implement encryption, access controls, and security remediation for multi-tenant environments.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards and maintain required documentation.

Automation & Change Management

• Develop and maintain IaC and automation for cloud infrastructure.
• Enable safe and repeatable patching, updates, and rollbacks through effective change-management practices.

Planning & Execution

• Manage moderately complex initiatives, prioritizing work, timelines, resources, and deliverables while providing technical oversight.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Collaborate across teams and stakeholders to align objectives and deliver solutions that meet business and customer needs.
• Promote inclusive collaboration and diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving

• Analyze and resolve moderately complex issues, escalating critical concerns with clear assessments and recommended solutions.
• Document and share effective problem-solving practices.

Continuous Learning

• Stay current with industry trends and continuously develop technical skills.
• Coach and mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement improvements to processes, workflows, and team effectiveness.
• Evaluate outcomes and incorporate stakeholder feedback.

Performance & Development

• Support talent development through candidate interviews, assessments, and hiring recommendations.