Principal Software Engineer, OpenSearch Platform

Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help

build and operate OCI Search Service with OpenSearch. This

individual-contributor role owns complex distributed-systems design and service

excellence for a managed search and analytics platform.

Why OCI

OCI offers the opportunity to solve production-scale infrastructure problems

where architecture, automated operations, security, and customer experience are

inseparable. The role contributes to a managed service used for application

search, log analytics, and observability workloads.

Org: Leads platform projects crossing multiple teams, evolving runtimes or

middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. Diagnoses and

resolves complex cross-service issues; enforces versioning, compatibility, and

safe rollout practices. Drives observability standards, capacity planning, and

resilience patterns across several workloads. Produces migration guides and

adoption playbooks that raise ecosystem consistency and developer experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Responsibilities

* Design, implement, and improve secure, scalable features and fixes for the

managed OpenSearch service.

* Drive sound design decisions, release planning, production readiness, and

operational excellence.

* Improve build systems, test frameworks, and performance and scalability

validation.

* Partner across OCI to remove delivery blockers and troubleshoot complex

distributed-network and service issues.

* Automate operational procedures, strengthen SRE practices, and participate in

the on-call rotation.

* Apply OCI security standards and mentor engineers through code review and

problem solving.

Team Qualifications

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent

industry experience.

* 10+ years in software engineering or infrastructure roles.

* Experience designing, deploying, and operating scalable OpenSearch,

Elasticsearch, or similar managed-service clusters.

* Deep knowledge of distributed systems, availability, throughput, and

production operations.

* Proficiency in Java and Python and experience with robust unit, integration,

and CI practices.

* Hands-on experience with automation, monitoring, alerting, incident response,

and performance tuning.

* Exposure to vector databases is beneficial.

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ORG Responsibilities

Platform Software Development:

* Lead cross-team evolution of middleware patterns or runtimes to standardize

interoperability at scale.

* Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies that

minimize downstream breaks.

* Drive shared observability baselines (SLOs, error budgets) and resilience

patterns across several services.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

* Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to

achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon

completion.

* Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development

lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.

* Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and

enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and

develops documents to clarify software design and code.

* Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.

* Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software

issues.

* Develops fixes for identified issues.

* Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and

non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging,

monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with

manager and/or lead upon completion.

* Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable

solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.

* Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming

interface (API) functionality and integration.

* Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability

strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

* Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services,

ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion.

Recommends project or design scope.

* Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in

existing software architecture.

* Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural

standards.

* Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns

with software architecture.

* Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in

software design.

* Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential

architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

* Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align

solutions.

* May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding

customer-reported issues.

* Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on

feedback.

* Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of

issues and effective communication.

* Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training

processes.

* Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad-reaching/scoped maintenance

issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g.,

future enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

* Collaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and

coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.

* Participates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and

ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during

development, independently.

* Demonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and

applies them to software development processes.

* Implements complex secure coding practices to prevent security

vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

* Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require

upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results

with manager upon completion.

* Drives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to

ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

* Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and

deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a

moderately sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and

prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and

adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.

Collaboration & Partnership:

* Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve

shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders,

and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports

inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives,

ensuring others feel heard and respected.

Problem Solving:

* Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range

of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard

practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a

thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes

to, and documents problem solving strategies.

Continuous Learning:

* Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in

new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices.

Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve

skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous

learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.

Continuous Improvement:

* Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation

of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of

processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on

key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative

approaches and methods for continued improvement.

Performance and Development:

* Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate

interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.

QUALIFICATIONS

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: $104,500 to $234,600 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.

Career Level - IC4

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