Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer
Oracle
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Santa Clara, CA · Posted August 15, 2026
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About the job
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is hiring a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to join the Next Gen Network Observability team. Help build cloud-scale intelligence systems that enable OCI networks to detect, diagnose, and respond to failures automatically—advancing the vision of self-healing networks through automated network control.