
Principal Core Infrastructure Software Engineer
Required skills
- Senior Staff-level
- AI systems
- agentic AI platforms
- autonomous workflows
- scalable inference infrastructure
- enterprise AI applications
- distributed systems
- AI-native engineering
- orchestration of LLMs
- APIs
Nice to have
- durable technical strategy
Role summary
Oracle is seeking a Principal Core Infrastructure Software Engineer, a Senior Staff-level role focused on building and operating next-generation AI systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This hands-on technical leadership position requires defining architecture and engineering direction for production-grade cloud distributed systems, agentic AI platforms, and scalable inference infrastructure. The ideal candidate will combine deep distributed systems experience with practical AI-native engineering, including orchestration of LLMs, tools, APIs, and guardrails. Responsibilities include shipping, scaling, and operating reliable, secure, observable, and cost-aware AI platform systems while elevating the technical standards for engineers.
The Principal Core Infrastructure Software Engineer is a Senior Staff-level, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for defining, building, and operating next-generation AI systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This person will set architecture and engineering direction for production-grade cloud distributed systems, agentic AI platforms, autonomous workflows, scalable inference infrastructure, and enterprise AI applications used in large-scale, business-critical environments.
This role requires a proven engineer who can translate ambiguous product and platform goals into durable technical strategy, lead multi-team execution without direct authority, and remain deeply hands-on in design, code, reviews, operations, and incident follow-up. The ideal candidate combines deep distributed systems experience with practical AI-native engineering, including orchestration of LLMs, tools, APIs, memory, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and cloud services. The expectation is to ship, scale, and operate reliable, secure, observable, and cost-aware AI platform systems while raising the technical bar for engineers across the organization.
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