Lead Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute delivers bare metal and virtual machine instances - CPU and GPU -at global scale. We are hiring a Lead Principal Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for OCI compute control plane services, with a focus on Imaging and Container Registry. You will architect and deliver distributed systems that are multi-tenant, highly available, and horizontally scalable across OCI regions, while driving operational excellence and cross-team technical alignment. In this role, you will: • Architect, design, and operate distributed, highly available, and resilient systems for multi-tenant, horizontally scalable, and cost-efficient architectures that deliver consistent latency, throughput, and durability across OCI regions. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Compute, Storage, Networking, OKE and functions to deliver new platform features focusing on Imaging, Container Registry Services, enforce secure-by-default designs, and improve overall services reliability. • Mentor and guide engineers in distributed systems design, high-scale data processing, and operational excellence; set and raise engineering standards across multiple teams. • Drive operational excellence by owning service-level objectives (availability, latency, durability) and reducing toil through automation, observability, and self-healing mechanisms. • Own the full service lifecycle from design and implementation to deployment, on-call, and continuous improvement — maintaining high code and reliability standards. • Define and drive the technical roadmap for OCI Imaging, Container Registry Services . • Partner with product management and field teams to translate customer needs into roadmap priorities for Oracle Imaging & Container Registry Services. • Contribute to the broader Compute vision, influencing how Oracle’s Imaging & Container Registry Services evolve to support mission-critical workloads globally.