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Principal Software Engineer
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Transformation & Delivery is building a high-impact engineering team to support our Zero Process Oracle (ZPO) initiative-a program focused on streamlining and improving critical business processes across the organization. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer who thrives in ambiguity, ships early and often, and leads by example to deliver measurable business results. This is not a research role. You will design, build, and operate reliable, secure systems at scale that directly support process improvement across Oracle. You'll drive rapid iteration through MVPs and learning loops, establish engineering best practices, and influence teams across the organization. If you have a bias for action and want to see your work create visible, organization-wide impact-this is your opportunity. Career Level: IC4 Responsibilities Responsibilities Design and build internal tooling and platforms that support...

Mar 09, 2026
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Principal software engineer
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Transformation & Delivery is building a high-impact engineering team to support our Zero Process Oracle (ZPO) initiative-a program focused on streamlining and improving critical business processes across the organization. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer who thrives in ambiguity, ships early and often, and leads by example to deliver measurable business results. This is not a research role. You will design, build, and operate reliable, secure systems at scale that directly support process improvement across Oracle. You'll drive rapid iteration through MVPs and learning loops, establish engineering best practices, and influence teams across the organization. If you have a bias for action and want to see your work create visible, organization-wide impact-this is your opportunity. Career Level: IC4 Responsibilities Responsibilities Design and build internal tooling and platforms that support...

Mar 09, 2026
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Principal Software Engineer (Agentic AI)
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description The SaaS Observability organization oversees all enterprise software services supporting over 25,000 customers and processing more than 60 billion transactions daily. Within this group, the Observability team delivers strategic software solutions and large-scale production engineering services that ensure our cloud products operate with maximum reliability, performance, and resilience. SaaS Observability operates one of the largest telemetry infrastructures in the industry, handling petabytes of data, monitoring billions of objects, and maintaining modern telemetry pipelines across distributed environments. The team is actively advancing its Agentic AI infrastructure to enable intelligent, autonomous observability. We're seeking a visionary Principal Software Engineer - Agentic AI to lead the evolution of our observability platform into an intelligent, agentic AI-powered system. You'll architect scalable solutions that integrate telemetry, LLMs, and...

Feb 21, 2026
General Motors
Principal Software Engineer, AV Platform Core
General Motors Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description The Principal Software Engineer at GM should be an experienced leader who cares deeply about software and software quality. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, documenting, and implementing complex, highly scalable, low-latency software on custom embedded Linux and RTOS-based systems. Your work will be the foundational software on which the rest of GM AV stack builds upon. What you'll do: Work with executive leadership to set the technology direction for embedded system development with a focus on robotics solutions Define a technical vision for mission-critical parts of embedded systems development Work across orgs to ensure that the joint architecture across the full stack is coherent and is capable of solving relevant problems Lead large initiatives involving many stakeholders by driving impact analysis and ensuring alignment with (and existence of) the larger architectural roadmap...

Feb 21, 2026
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Principal software engineer
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description The SaaS Observability organization oversees all enterprise software services supporting over 25,000 customers and processing more than 60 billion transactions daily. Within this group, the Observability team delivers strategic software solutions and large-scale production engineering services that ensure our cloud products operate with maximum reliability, performance, and resilience. SaaS Observability operates one of the largest telemetry infrastructures in the industry, handling petabytes of data, monitoring billions of objects, and maintaining modern telemetry pipelines across distributed environments. The team is actively advancing its Agentic AI infrastructure to enable intelligent, autonomous observability. We're seeking a visionary Principal Software Engineer - Agentic AI to lead the evolution of our observability platform into an intelligent, agentic AI-powered system. You'll architect scalable solutions that integrate telemetry, LLMs, and...

Feb 21, 2026
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Principal Software Engineer, Interactive Media
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Potential Locations : Nashville, TN Austin, TX Broomfield, CO Santa Clara, CA Redwood City, CA Seattle, WA As a Principal Engineer inside the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Interactive Media team, you will have the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems and function as a lead developer in the development, delivery and operation of cloud services that will enable delivery of novel consumer video applications. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing team building new products that are redefining streaming, transforming how content creators engage audiences and unlock new revenue streams through cloud-native innovation. You will help create scalable, real-time systems enabling intelligent content delivery, dynamic interactivity, and monetization-all built on globally distributed infrastructure. The environment is dynamic, fast-paced, and highly collaborative. You will work with a talented...

Mar 10, 2026
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Sr Principal Software Engineer - Media Entertainment Services
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Job Location: (no exceptions) Preferred: Nashville, TN Optional: Austin, TX Optional: Broomfield, CO Optional: Seattle, WA Optional: Redwood City, CA Job Description As a Senior Principal Engineer in this space, you will have broad ownership of core technical components and services. You will guide the engineering team and lead the development of cloud services that enable streaming providers to move their workloads to OCI. These services include playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery, streaming analytics, and flexible billing & cost analytics. This is a unique opportunity to build a competitive product from the ground up and extend OCI's reach into new opportunities within the media and entertainment industry. You will collaborate with engineering leaders to shape the path to success, leveraging your experience as a lead developer to influence and direct the project....

Mar 10, 2026
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Senior Principal Software Engineer - Interactive Media
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Potential Locations : Nashville, TN Austin, TX Broomfield, CO Santa Clara, CA Redwood City, CA Seattle, WA As a Senior Principal Engineer inside the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Interactive Media team, you will provide key technical guidance and function as a senior lead developer in the development, delivery and operation of cloud services that will enable delivery of novel consumer video applications. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing team building new products that are redefining streaming, transforming how content creators engage audiences and unlock new revenue streams through cloud-native innovation. You will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, real-time systems enabling intelligent content delivery, dynamic interactivity, and monetization-all built on globally distributed infrastructure. The environment is dynamic, fast-paced, and highly collaborative. You will...

Mar 10, 2026
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Principal Software Engineer - Media Entertainment Services
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description scription As a Principal Engineer in this space, you will have ownership of key technical components and services. You will drive the engineering team and lead the development of cloud services that enable streaming providers to move their workloads to OCI. These services include playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery, streaming analytics, and flexible billing & cost analytics. This is a unique opportunity to build a competitive product from the ground up and extend OCI's reach into new opportunities within the media and entertainment industry. You will collaborate with engineering leaders to shape the path to success, leveraging your experience as a senior team member to influence and drive progress. We are looking for someone with substantial experience in building, leading, and operating cloud services at a high technical level. Experience in video playback, video encoding technologies, content delivery...

Mar 10, 2026
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Principal software engineer media
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Potential Locations : Nashville, TN Austin, TX Broomfield, CO Santa Clara, CA Redwood City, CA Seattle, WA As a Principal Engineer inside the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Interactive Media team, you will have the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems and function as a lead developer in the development, delivery and operation of cloud services that will enable delivery of novel consumer video applications. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing team building new products that are redefining streaming, transforming how content creators engage audiences and unlock new revenue streams through cloud-native innovation. You will help create scalable, real-time systems enabling intelligent content delivery, dynamic interactivity, and monetization-all built on globally distributed infrastructure. The environment is dynamic, fast-paced, and highly collaborative. You will work with a talented...

Mar 10, 2026
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Principal software engineer - media entertainment services
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Job Location: (no exceptions) Preferred: Nashville, TN Optional: Austin, TX Optional: Broomfield, CO Optional: Seattle, WA Optional: Redwood City, CA Job Description As a Senior Principal Engineer in this space, you will have broad ownership of core technical components and services. You will guide the engineering team and lead the development of cloud services that enable streaming providers to move their workloads to OCI. These services include playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery, streaming analytics, and flexible billing & cost analytics. This is a unique opportunity to build a competitive product from the ground up and extend OCI's reach into new opportunities within the media and entertainment industry. You will collaborate with engineering leaders to shape the path to success, leveraging your experience as a lead developer to influence and direct the project....

Mar 10, 2026
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Principal software engineer - media entertainment services
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description scription As a Principal Engineer in this space, you will have ownership of key technical components and services. You will drive the engineering team and lead the development of cloud services that enable streaming providers to move their workloads to OCI. These services include playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery, streaming analytics, and flexible billing & cost analytics. This is a unique opportunity to build a competitive product from the ground up and extend OCI's reach into new opportunities within the media and entertainment industry. You will collaborate with engineering leaders to shape the path to success, leveraging your experience as a senior team member to influence and drive progress. We are looking for someone with substantial experience in building, leading, and operating cloud services at a high technical level. Experience in video playback, video encoding technologies, content delivery...

Mar 10, 2026
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Senior principal software engineer - media
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Potential Locations : Nashville, TN Austin, TX Broomfield, CO Santa Clara, CA Redwood City, CA Seattle, WA As a Senior Principal Engineer inside the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Interactive Media team, you will provide key technical guidance and function as a senior lead developer in the development, delivery and operation of cloud services that will enable delivery of novel consumer video applications. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing team building new products that are redefining streaming, transforming how content creators engage audiences and unlock new revenue streams through cloud-native innovation. You will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, real-time systems enabling intelligent content delivery, dynamic interactivity, and monetization-all built on globally distributed infrastructure. The environment is dynamic, fast-paced, and highly collaborative. You will...

Mar 10, 2026
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Senior Principal Software Engineer, SocialTV
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Potential Locations : Nashville, TN Austin, TX Broomfield, CO Santa Clara, CA Redwood City, CA Seattle, WA As a Senior Principal Engineer inside the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SocialTV team, you will provide key technical guidance and function as a senior lead developer in the development, delivery and operation of cloud services that will enable delivery of novel consumer video applications. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing team building new products that are redefining streaming, transforming how content creators engage audiences and unlock new revenue streams through cloud-native innovation. You will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, real-time systems enabling intelligent content delivery, dynamic interactivity, and monetization-all built on globally distributed infrastructure. The environment is dynamic, fast-paced, and highly collaborative. You will partner...

Mar 09, 2026
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Senior principal software engineer
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description Potential Locations : Nashville, TN Austin, TX Broomfield, CO Santa Clara, CA Redwood City, CA Seattle, WA As a Senior Principal Engineer inside the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SocialTV team, you will provide key technical guidance and function as a senior lead developer in the development, delivery and operation of cloud services that will enable delivery of novel consumer video applications. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing team building new products that are redefining streaming, transforming how content creators engage audiences and unlock new revenue streams through cloud-native innovation. You will lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, real-time systems enabling intelligent content delivery, dynamic interactivity, and monetization-all built on globally distributed infrastructure. The environment is dynamic, fast-paced, and highly collaborative. You will partner...

Mar 09, 2026
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Principal Software Engineer - ML & AI Innovation
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description The Principal AI/ML Software Engineer is responsible for evaluating, integrating, and optimizing cutting-edge technologies for AI/ML infrastructure, focusing on achieving low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource utilization for both model training and inference at scale. This role guides key strategic decisions related to Oracle Cloud's AI infrastructure offerings, spearheads the design and implementation of scalable orchestration for AI/ML workloads-incorporating the latest research in generative AI and large language models-and leads initiatives such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation and model fine-tuning. The ideal candidate will design and develop scalable, GPU-accelerated AI services using tools like Kubernetes and Python/Go, and must possess strong programming skills, deep expertise in deep learning frameworks, containerization, distributed systems, and parallel computing, along with a comprehensive understanding of end-to-end AI/ML...

Feb 18, 2026
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Principal software engineer
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description The Principal AI/ML Software Engineer is responsible for evaluating, integrating, and optimizing cutting-edge technologies for AI/ML infrastructure, focusing on achieving low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource utilization for both model training and inference at scale. This role guides key strategic decisions related to Oracle Cloud's AI infrastructure offerings, spearheads the design and implementation of scalable orchestration for AI/ML workloads-incorporating the latest research in generative AI and large language models-and leads initiatives such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation and model fine-tuning. The ideal candidate will design and develop scalable, GPU-accelerated AI services using tools like Kubernetes and Python/Go, and must possess strong programming skills, deep expertise in deep learning frameworks, containerization, distributed systems, and parallel computing, along with a comprehensive understanding of end-to-end AI/ML...

Feb 18, 2026
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Principal Software Engineer - Impact
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description As a Principal Engineer inside the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Media Services team, you will have the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems and function as a lead developer in the development, delivery and operation of cloud services that will enable delivery of novel consumer video applications. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing team building new products that are redefining streaming, transforming how content creators engage audiences and unlock new revenue streams through cloud-native innovation. You will help create scalable, real-time systems enabling intelligent content delivery, dynamic interactivity, and monetization-all built on globally distributed infrastructure. The environment is dynamic, fast-paced, and highly collaborative. You will work with a talented group of software developers, designing scalable, highly available cloud services in a world class development environment. We are seeking an individual with...

Feb 14, 2026
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Principal software engineer
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description As a Principal Engineer inside the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Media Services team, you will have the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems and function as a lead developer in the development, delivery and operation of cloud services that will enable delivery of novel consumer video applications. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-performing team building new products that are redefining streaming, transforming how content creators engage audiences and unlock new revenue streams through cloud-native innovation. You will help create scalable, real-time systems enabling intelligent content delivery, dynamic interactivity, and monetization-all built on globally distributed infrastructure. The environment is dynamic, fast-paced, and highly collaborative. You will work with a talented group of software developers, designing scalable, highly available cloud services in a world class development environment. We are seeking an individual with...

Feb 14, 2026
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Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Performance
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description *This position is based onsite in Nashville, TN Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more. At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We're embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as building new innovative platforms, high performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and new container runtime that will allow us to run the full variety of OCI services, including our most demanding, high-performance, high-availability services. We're also working on new ingenuities such as providing canonical...

Feb 16, 2026
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Principal software engineer cloud
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description *This position is based onsite in Nashville, TN Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more. At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We're embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as building new innovative platforms, high performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and new container runtime that will allow us to run the full variety of OCI services, including our most demanding, high-performance, high-availability services. We're also working on new ingenuities such as providing canonical...

Feb 16, 2026
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Senior Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description OCI (Oracle Cloud) AI Infrastructure Innovation team is inventing the next generation of storage technologies. You will lead architecture and hands-on development across key layers: distributed processing, transactions, consensus, and storage engines. If you thrive at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, database internals, and cloud platforms, this role offers the opportunity to advance the state of the art. Responsibilities Lead end-to-end architecture, system design, and implementation for distributed storage platforms. Innovate on query processing, transaction, and IO performance, and work across different components - query planning/optimization, distributed execution engine, index and storage engine. Develop production-grade, high-performance software features with rigorous durability, correctness, observability, and security. Define performance goals and success metrics; design benchmarks and conduct large-scale experiments to...

Feb 15, 2026
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Principal Software Engineer, OCI
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description We're seeking experienced and driven developers, experienced in Linux internals, virtualization and container technologies, to join a new Service Platform team within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This team is building a foundational platform that powers OCI services-from low-level execution runtimes and cluster management to application orchestration and advanced change management workflows. Our goal: to accelerate OCI's evolution into an autonomous cloud, boosting efficiency, scalability, and developer productivity. As a member of this growing team, you'll play a key role in shaping innovative initiatives with broad impact across OCI. We're looking for engineering leads who thrive on solving deep technical challenges, enjoy pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and are eager to dive into complex systems to make them simpler, faster, and more reliable. If you're passionate about building high-performance software, value clean design at scale, and...

Feb 15, 2026
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Senior principal software engineer storage
Oracle Des Moines, IA, USA
Job Description OCI (Oracle Cloud) AI Infrastructure Innovation team is inventing the next generation of storage technologies. You will lead architecture and hands-on development across key layers: distributed processing, transactions, consensus, and storage engines. If you thrive at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, database internals, and cloud platforms, this role offers the opportunity to advance the state of the art. Responsibilities Lead end-to-end architecture, system design, and implementation for distributed storage platforms. Innovate on query processing, transaction, and IO performance, and work across different components - query planning/optimization, distributed execution engine, index and storage engine. Develop production-grade, high-performance software features with rigorous durability, correctness, observability, and security. Define performance goals and success metrics; design benchmarks and conduct large-scale experiments to...

Feb 15, 2026
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