Senior Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Oracle
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Santa Clara, CA · Posted November 9, 2026
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About the job
Own the architecture and delivery of a major storage and networking data path subsystem for a greenfield DPU platform at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Define how components fit together, resolve cross-team technical tradeoffs, and lead integration into production while remaining hands-on. Bring deep expertise in either storage data paths or networking data paths, with working familiarity in the other domain.