Team Overview: The Virtual Machine Data Plane team is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing the virtualization stack that supports running customer virtual machines. Our hypervisors run across all CPU architectures and virtualize underlying hardware capabilities like CPU, GPU, NVMe with near-bare metal performance. We are continually pushing the boundaries of virtualization technology to achieve our mission of offering customers highly-performant, always-available, and elastic virtual machines. 

Role Summary: As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will be responsible for leading software development efforts for significant features in Oracle Compute's service offerings. The role requires a blend of hands-on engineering expertise and leadership skills, focusing on building and operating large-scale, highly available cloud services. The ideal candidate will mentor team members, drive high-priority programs, and contribute to the evolution of standard practices within the software engineering division.

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of software development experience in systems or application-level engineering 3+ years of experience with OS kernel internals (e.g. memory management, device driver architecture) 3+ years of experience with PC architecture and virtualization (e.g. QEMU/KVM, Hyper-V, ESX)  Proficiency in at least two of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, Java, Python Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and operating systems Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field Working familiarity of networking protocols (L2/L3/L4) and standard network architecture Experience with Linux performance tools Experience with Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) Experience with GPU, SmartNIC, SR-IOV/VFIO, vDPA, TPM, SEV, live migration