Principal Software Engineer - OCI Planning & Capacity

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a highly motivated Software Developer 4 to join the Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization. This team develops the platforms, services, workflows, and operational tooling that enable Oracle to plan, source, deploy, and manage capacity across its global cloud infrastructure footprint.

Our systems support critical business and engineering processes that influence billions of dollars in infrastructure investments and help drive Oracle's worldwide data center expansion. We build cloud-native services, workflow platforms, data pipelines, and analytics solutions used by engineering, operations, supply chain, finance, and executive leadership teams across OCI.

As a member of this team, you will design and develop scalable cloud services and distributed systems that power infrastructure planning, capacity forecasting, deployment readiness, sourcing operations, and operational decision-making at global scale.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building cloud-native applications, and a passion for solving complex operational challenges through automation, data, and scalable platform development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and operate cloud-native services supporting OCI infrastructure planning and capacity management.
• Build scalable backend services, APIs, workflow engines, and automation platforms that support business-critical operational processes.
• Develop and maintain distributed systems capable of processing large-scale infrastructure, operational, and planning datasets.
• Partner with product managers, TPMs, infrastructure teams, supply chain organizations, and business stakeholders to define and deliver technical solutions.
• Build data ingestion, transformation, and analytics pipelines that improve forecasting accuracy and operational visibility.
• Contribute to system architecture, technical design reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring, observability, reliability improvements, and automation.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production support activities as required.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, improve operational efficiency, and reduce manual effort through software solutions.
• Collaborate across OCI organizations to integrate with infrastructure, inventory, planning, and capacity management systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, C#, or similar modern programming languages.
• Experience designing and building cloud-native services and APIs.
• Experience developing applications deployed within cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Experience working with relational and/or distributed databases.
• Familiarity with modern development practices including CI/CD, automated testing, source control, and observability.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building distributed systems and highly scalable backend services.
• Experience with data engineering, data pipelines, ETL workflows, streaming platforms, or large-scale analytics systems.
• Familiarity with infrastructure planning, capacity management, data center operations, hardware lifecycle management, or supply chain workflows.
• Experience working within cloud infrastructure organizations such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience developing workflow orchestration, business process automation, or operational management systems.
• Familiarity with Oracle APEX development and low-code application frameworks.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized applications, and microservice architectures.
• Experience with data warehousing, forecasting systems, or operational analytics platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts including compute, storage, networking, and capacity planning.
• Experience working with large-scale enterprise systems and highly cross-functional stakeholder environments.

What You'll Build

You will help develop the next generation of OCI planning and capacity management platforms, including:

• Capacity forecasting and planning services
• Infrastructure sourcing and deployment workflows
• Data pipelines and operational analytics platforms
• Executive reporting and operational visibility systems
• Process automation and workflow orchestration services

Cloud-native platforms supporting OCI's global infrastructure growth

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: $114,600 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