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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute delivers bare metal and virtual machine instances - CPU and GPU -at global scale. We are hiring a Lead Principal Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for OCI compute control plane services, with a focus on Imaging and Container Registry. You will architect and deliver distributed systems that are multi-tenant, highly available, and horizontally scalable across OCI regions, while driving operational excellence and cross-team technical alignment.
In this role, you will:
- Architect, design, and operate distributed, highly available, and resilient systems for multi-tenant, horizontally scalable, and cost-efficient architectures that deliver consistent latency, throughput, and durability across OCI regions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Compute, Storage, Networking, OKE and functions to deliver new platform features focusing on Imaging, Container Registry Services, enforce secure-by-default designs, and improve overall services reliability.
- Mentor and guide engineers in distributed systems design, high-scale data processing, and operational excellence; set and raise engineering standards across multiple teams.
- Drive operational excellence by owning service-level objectives (availability, latency, durability) and reducing toil through automation, observability, and self-healing mechanisms.
- Own the full service lifecycle from design and implementation to deployment, on-call, and continuous improvement — maintaining high code and reliability standards.
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for OCI Imaging, Container Registry Services .
- Partner with product management and field teams to translate customer needs into roadmap priorities for Oracle Imaging & Container Registry Services.
- Contribute to the broader Compute vision, influencing how Oracle’s Imaging & Container Registry Services evolve to support mission-critical workloads globally.
We are looking for a hands-on Lead Principal engineer with technical breadth, proven experience in solving cloud scale problems, distributed systems design & implementation experience to build fault tolerant solutions that will form the foundations of the next generation of Compute offerings. The candidate is expected to have strong written and verbal communications skills, the ability to lead projects across organizational boundaries, and experience representing their work to senior leaders.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of development experience with large scale, highly available distributed systems
- Proficiency in Java programming patterns, programming experience with Scala, Python is preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
- Experience with operating distributed services at scale
- Expertise in Linux and operating systems
- Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, strong ownership and drive
- Deep understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems
- Ability to propose, scope, design and direct automation, optimizations, and enhancements BS or MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related IT field or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
Soft Skills & Leadership:
- Proven ability to drive technical outcomes, take ownership of deliverables, and work independently in fast-evolving AI solution spaces.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts and document solution approaches, collaborate across multiple geo distributed teams.
- Demonstrated problem-solving ability leveraging AI, distributed systems, and cloud-native application behaviors. A proactive, experimentation-oriented mindset with a strong willingness to learn and guide team on emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and engineering patterns.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in management and automation of end-to-end CPU/GPU lifecycles at scale
- Proficiency with Cloud and CICD environments
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, OS Images and Terraform
- Proficiency with modern build tools and pipelines
- Proficiency building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure
- Proficiency with change control management and mature operating processes
- Proficiency with Security including Identity, SSL and certificates
- Proficiency with Database and Data Stores
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute delivers bare metal and virtual machine instances - CPU and GPU -at global scale. We are hiring a Lead Principal Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for OCI compute control plane services, with a focus on Imaging and Container Registry. You will architect and deliver distributed systems that are multi-tenant, highly available, and horizontally scalable across OCI regions, while driving operational excellence and cross-team technical alignment.
In this role, you will:
- Architect, design, and operate distributed, highly available, and resilient systems for multi-tenant, horizontally scalable, and cost-efficient architectures that deliver consistent latency, throughput, and durability across OCI regions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Compute, Storage, Networking, OKE and functions to deliver new platform features focusing on Imaging, Container Registry Services, enforce secure-by-default designs, and improve overall services reliability.
- Mentor and guide engineers in distributed systems design, high-scale data processing, and operational excellence; set and raise engineering standards across multiple teams.
- Drive operational excellence by owning service-level objectives (availability, latency, durability) and reducing toil through automation, observability, and self-healing mechanisms.
- Own the full service lifecycle from design and implementation to deployment, on-call, and continuous improvement — maintaining high code and reliability standards.
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for OCI Imaging, Container Registry Services .
- Partner with product management and field teams to translate customer needs into roadmap priorities for Oracle Imaging & Container Registry Services.
- Contribute to the broader Compute vision, influencing how Oracle’s Imaging & Container Registry Services evolve to support mission-critical workloads globally.
We are looking for a hands-on Lead Principal engineer with technical breadth, proven experience in solving cloud scale problems, distributed systems design & implementation experience to build fault tolerant solutions that will form the foundations of the next generation of Compute offerings. The candidate is expected to have strong written and verbal communications skills, the ability to lead projects across organizational boundaries, and experience representing their work to senior leaders.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of development experience with large scale, highly available distributed systems
- Proficiency in Java programming patterns, programming experience with Scala, Python is preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
- Experience with operating distributed services at scale
- Expertise in Linux and operating systems
- Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, strong ownership and drive
- Deep understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems
- Ability to propose, scope, design and direct automation, optimizations, and enhancements BS or MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related IT field or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
Soft Skills & Leadership:
- Proven ability to drive technical outcomes, take ownership of deliverables, and work independently in fast-evolving AI solution spaces.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts and document solution approaches, collaborate across multiple geo distributed teams.
- Demonstrated problem-solving ability leveraging AI, distributed systems, and cloud-native application behaviors. A proactive, experimentation-oriented mindset with a strong willingness to learn and guide team on emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and engineering patterns.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in management and automation of end-to-end CPU/GPU lifecycles at scale
- Proficiency with Cloud and CICD environments
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, OS Images and Terraform
- Proficiency with modern build tools and pipelines
- Proficiency building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure
- Proficiency with change control management and mature operating processes
- Proficiency with Security including Identity, SSL and certificates
- Proficiency with Database and Data Stores
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Who's Hiring
- Oracle66
- Amazon7
- Microsoft6
- TSMC4
- Jabil4
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software18
- Consulting & Professional Services3
- Manufacturing2
- Healthcare & Medical Services2
- Retail1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in principal infrastructure engineer jobs.
- 7 or more years of experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure systems
- Deep expertise with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure at an enterprise scale
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform or Pulumi
- Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes in production environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction and mentor senior engineers
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Principal Infrastructure Engineer Job Search
Quantify infrastructure scale on your resume
Principal-level hiring managers want to see the size of what you've run. Replace vague phrases like 'managed cloud infrastructure' with specific scope: fleet size, uptime targets you owned, or traffic volume your systems handled daily.
Highlight cross-team influence, not just ownership
At the principal level, employers expect you to have driven decisions beyond your immediate team. Call out moments where you set standards, unblocked other engineering groups, or shaped a platform roadmap that others built on top of.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists principal infrastructure engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings that name your stack explicitly
Principal roles are stack-sensitive. If a posting calls out Kubernetes, Terraform, or a specific cloud provider and your resume buries those terms, you'll get filtered out. Mirror the exact tooling language from each job description in your application.
Prepare a system design narrative for interviews
Principal infrastructure interviews almost always include a large-scale design exercise. Practice walking through a full architecture decision out loud, including the tradeoffs you rejected, not just the solution you chose.
Follow up with a technical context note
After a final-round interview, send a short follow-up that references one specific technical problem discussed and adds a detail you didn't fully develop in the room. It signals depth and reinforces your candidacy without being generic.
Principal Infrastructure Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most principal infrastructure engineers?
The most active employers for principal infrastructure engineers right now are Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft, and the most openings are in Tennessee, California, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated at large technology companies and financial services firms running complex multi-cloud environments.
How many principal infrastructure engineer jobs are remote?
About 63% of principal infrastructure engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for senior technical talent regardless of location. Sub-areas like cloud platform engineering, site reliability, and DevOps tooling tend to have the highest concentration of remote-eligible roles compared to on-premise data center or network-heavy positions.
How do you become a principal infrastructure engineer?
Start by building deep hands-on experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code in a senior or staff engineer role. Take on cross-team projects that require you to set technical standards others follow. Build a record of owning systems at scale, mentoring engineers, and making architectural decisions with organization-wide impact. Certifications in AWS, GCP, or Azure reinforce your credentials when moving into principal-level applications.
Can you get a principal infrastructure engineer role without prior principal-level experience?
Yes, but you need to close the gap in how you present your existing work. Hiring managers promote strong staff engineers who can demonstrate they've already operated at principal scope informally. Document every instance where you drove an infrastructure decision beyond your team, authored an engineering standard, or resolved a systemic reliability problem independently. Your portfolio of impact matters more than a previous title.
What does the principal infrastructure engineer interview process look like?
Most processes run across four to six rounds. Expect an initial recruiter screen, a technical phone interview focused on systems design or past infrastructure projects, one or two in-depth architecture design sessions, and a cross-functional interview assessing leadership and influence. Some companies add a take-home design exercise. The final stage typically involves a conversation with engineering leadership about technical vision and org-level priorities.
Where can I find and apply to principal infrastructure engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to principal infrastructure engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your experience and target stack, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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