Lead Principal Software Engineer

Benefits

Parental leave

14 weeks Source: https://www.oracle.com/careers/culture/benefits/. source Last checked May 7, 2026.

Non-birth-parent leave

14 weeks Source: https://www.oracle.com/careers/culture/benefits/. source Last checked May 7, 2026.

Family-building benefits

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Verification

Source-linked checked May 7, 2026

Salary

$97K-$252K not verified - source not recorded; timestamp not recorded

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

49% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Lead Principal Software Engineer Austin, TX, United States, US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute delivers bare metal and virtual machine instances - CPU and GPU -at global scale. We are hiring a Consulting Member of Technical Staff 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 &

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