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At a glance
Oracle is hiring a Principal Software Developer in Austin, TX. It is a full-time role in Software & IT, asking for at least 6 years of experience, first listed on November 4. The advertised pay is $114,600–$234,600 a year. The description mentions C++, C#, Java, Rust, Docker and Kubernetes. Oracle has 120 other openings in the US, 12 of them in Austin, TX. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 224 Software & IT openings in Austin, TX today; the typical one asks for 6 years and advertises about $187,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
Oracle advertises $114,600 to $234,600 a year, a midpoint of $174,600 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is lower than about 53% of the 308 software & IT jobs in Texas that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $180,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and Texas tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
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About hiring at Oracle
Oracle has 121 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 15 states. Most are in software & IT (45), data & AI (27) and product & design (17). The biggest locations are Nashville, TN (46), Austin, TX (13) and Seattle, WA (13). None of them is fully remote, 3% are open to entry-level candidates and 100% show pay. We collect Oracle's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Oracle Recruiting Cloud), never from job boards or agencies.
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Here at OCI we’re building the world’s largest AI clusters and we’re the fastest at bringing them to the market. The AI Infrastructure organization at OCI is leading this effort by creating a GPU focused cloud with the latest hardware providing the best performance, efficiency, reliability, and scalability. This is your chance to be part of the AI revolution by creating systems that allow customers to scale from tens to thousands of GPUs without compromising performance. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and make a significant impact on our organization's success.
We are looking for a highly skilled distributed systems engineer to scale and optimize AI infrastructure components like GPU control plane and GPU data plane that provide computing resources to customer AI workloads. You will provide technical leadership to the team and bring clarity to ambiguous problems and come up with innovative solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our AI infrastructure to deliver exceptional customer experience and peak performance.
Responsibilities
Design and develop solutions to scale and optimize AI compute infrastructure components like GPU control plane and GPU data plane with the goal to optimize customer experience and customer workload performance on our AI infrastructure.
Develop “best-in-class” AI compute infrastructure for our customers by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, compliant and reusable.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, and product management, to understand their requirements and design innovative orchestration solutions.
Mentor junior developers and drive modern software engineering practices like leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions, well-defined interfaces across components, design reviews, coding standards, code reviews, and comprehensive coverage from unit test, integration test and active production monitoring.
Develop benchmark metrics and automation to drive and track performance and reliability across customer workload and lower infrastructure stack.
Qualifications & Skills
BS (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
6+ years of experience in software development with programming languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Go, Rust.
3 years of experience designing and developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, and services.
1 year of experience providing technical leadership and clarity to cross-functional teams and projects while collaborating across stake holders.
Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive.
Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in managing cloud infrastructure with hundreds of thousands of servers.
Experience in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience in scheduling high-performance workloads on Kubernetes or Slurm.
Qualifications
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: $114,600 to $234,600 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 - IC4
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