Principal Software Engineer

Work location - Bangalore
We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer in OCI Network Automation team, to design, implement and optimize components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability. Deliver features and leverage distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and review peers' implementations for quality and scalability compliance. Proactively detect and mitigate issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; author runbooks and participate in incident response and RCAs.
Responsibilities:-
As a member of software engineering at OCI, you will:
Design and develop services, automated workflows and infrastructure to manage a growing fleet of networking devices
Deliver highly available and secure OCI Networking infrastructure
Own onboarding of next-gen network technologies, deployment tooling, patching, fleet monitoring, automation, and access controls
Collaborate across OCI to ensure networking is best-in-class
Key Responsibilities:
Build and maintain technologies to automate distributed fleet management
Develop deployment and monitoring tools for scale and performance
Enhance deployment efficiency across global regions through automation
Participate in on-call rotation to monitor fleet and services
Improve operational capabilities via runbooks, alarming, and tooling
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
8+ years of experience in software development
5+ years of Linux System Engineering experience
5+ years with Python, BASH, or Java
1+ years of DevOps experience
Proficient with build tools/pipelines (e.g., TeamCity, Maven, Make)
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in CI/CD environments
Agile development experience
Prior cloud infrastructure experience
Experience automating networking device management

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