Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer
Oracle · Bengaluru
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is expanding across existing and new regions. Our Networking organization builds systems that manage Internet and backbone traffic, mitigate congestion, and reduce customer impact while enabling network operations to scale efficiently.
The Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer mentors engineering teams and leads the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. This role identifies and eliminates performance and scalability bottlenecks for hyperscale workloads, defines scalability requirements with stakeholders, and designs elastic, high-impact systems while driving innovation in data plane platforms.
We are seeking a Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to define technical direction and lead the development of highly available, scalable network control, intelligent routing and automation systems. You will combine deep networking knowledge with software and distributed systems expertise to connect real-time observability with safe, automated routing decisions.
Your work will span autonomous traffic management, policy-driven network optimization, and software-based routing infrastructure. You will identify performance and scalability bottlenecks, define requirements with stakeholders, and design resilient services that protect customer connectivity during growth, failures, and infrastructure changes.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role with broad architectural influence. Based in IDC alongside the engineering team, you will lead initiatives from design through production operations, contribute to critical implementations, and establish standards for availability, security, observability, and safe deployment. You will collaborate across engineering and operations teams while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership.
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Lead the architecture and development of intelligent routing, network automation, and highly scalable distributed control-plane systems that improve the reliability, performance, and operational efficiency of OCI’s global network.