Principal Network Developer

As a Principal Network Development Engineer within NAT, you will serve as a senior technical leader for network acquisition, connectivity delivery, and activation across OCI’s global infrastructure. You will guide the engineering execution of connectivity supporting OCI regions, AI infrastructure, capacity expansion, backbone growth, and strategic network deployments. You will operate at the intersection of network architecture, telecommunications, optical infrastructure, service providers, data center engineering, deployment, and operations. Your scope will span carrier circuits, dark and lit fiber, DWDM and wavelength services, optical transport, Internet transit, peering, backbone connectivity, cross-connects, and data center interconnects. You will translate complex network designs and business requirements into clear technical specifications, implementation approaches, and acceptance criteria for internal teams and infrastructure partners. At the Principal level, you will lead engineering decisions across programs and deployments, resolve ambiguous technical requirements, and evaluate tradeoffs involving capacity, performance, resiliency, physical route diversity, operational supportability, and delivery constraints. You will partner with architecture and engineering teams to identify implementation gaps early and use delivery and operational experience to influence future designs, technical standards, and supplier requirements. You will establish the technical requirements for circuit acceptance, fiber and optical validation, turn-up, activation, and production readiness. You will guide teams in evaluating test evidence, resolving deficiencies, and documenting readiness decisions, exceptions, and remediation requirements before operational handoff. As a senior technical escalation point, you will lead the resolution of complex Layer 1 through Layer 3 issues across OCI teams and external providers, drive root cause analysis, and ensure recurring failures result in corrective actions and engineering improvements. You will work closely with Program Managers to assess technical risks, dependencies, blockers, and recovery options across the delivery portfolio. You will strengthen NAT’s engineering practices through reusable standards, Methods of Procedure, runbooks, acceptance frameworks, accurate infrastructure records, and clear operational handoffs. You will also guide the use of automation, scripting, telemetry, database management tools, and AI-assisted engineering to improve validation, troubleshooting, data quality, and delivery efficiency while maintaining engineering rigor and validating outputs. This role requires deep network engineering expertise, sound technical judgment, and the ability to drive complex outcomes across organizations and external suppliers. You will influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards across NAT, with an emphasis on repeatable practices that improve connectivity quality, reliability, and readiness at global scale. 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: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. 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. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.