Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

OCI is expanding rapidly across existing and new regions. The Next Generation Networking organization is investing in systems that reduce customer impact minutes while enabling operational scale with flat or sub-linear headcount growth in Network Engineering and Operations. In this high-impact technical leadership role, you will define the architecture for a unified global intelligence and control layer, fusing real-time observability with near-term traffic prediction to enable a closed-loop Observe–Predict–Decide–Act model. You will combine deep networking and distributed-systems expertise with automation, algorithms, and applied AI/ML to build resilient, highly available services at hyper scale. You will collaborate closely with Network Engineering, Network Automation and Monitoring, OCI Resilience and Reliability to deliver end-to-end capabilities that improve OCI reliability and customer experience. Responsibilities * Define and lead the technical vision and architecture for Next-Generation network intelligence platform, pushing intelligence to end hosts and SmartNICs while preserving the network core as a high-performance, deterministic forwarding plane. * Design, implement, and operate distributed control-plane and observability software for data center and WAN network orchestration. * Develop algorithms for route computation, congestion management, fault isolation, traffic steering, and recovery. * Build systems that correlate real-time network and infrastructure signals, identify customer impact, and trigger safe automated responses. * Architect scalable, fault-tolerant, secure, and highly available services that operate reliably at OCI scale. * Drive complex incident analysis and resolution across distributed systems and real-time network state. * Maintain clear technical documentation for architecture, implementation, operational procedures, and system evolution. * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience. * 10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, network control planes, observability platforms. * Deep knowledge of networking technologies, including L2/L3 networking, routing and switching, SDN, traffic engineering, and WAN technologies. * Experience applying machine learning or AI frameworks and techniques to operational or network intelligence problems is a plus. * Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of mentoring and developing other engineers. 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: $146,300 to $306,400 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 - IC5