Principal Software Developer, Core Infrastructure

The Host Provisioning Service manages the end-to-end lifecycle of OCI hardware, including qualification, provisioning, firmware lifecycle management, cryptographic wiping, and decommissioning. In this role, you will provide technical leadership for new product introduction and fleet-management capabilities, define scalable architectures and automation, and partner across engineering, security, compute, manufacturing, and vendor organizations to bring complex hardware platforms into production reliably and securely.

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of provisioning, firmware-management, and hardware lifecycle services.
• Drive qualification, onboarding, and operational readiness for new server, GPU, NIC, SmartNIC, and storage platforms.
• Define scalable automation and validation frameworks for firmware qualification, metadata generation, compliance validation, and deployment readiness.
• Lead investigation and resolution of complex production issues across provisioning, firmware, hardware-management, and platform lifecycle systems.
• Provide on-call support and technical leadership for customer fleet issues in OCI data centers.
• Establish technical standards for service reliability, observability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering, Security, Compute, Manufacturing, and hardware vendors to deliver secure, production-ready platform launches.
• Mentor engineers, lead design reviews and technical discussions, and drive post-incident improvements.

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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.