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Principal Systems Software Engineer

Oracle

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  1. Why do you want to join Oracle?
  2. What is your experience with System design? Tell me one thing you learned the hard way.
  3. How would you design an API for a feature you have worked on?
  4. What do you do when a production issue happens on your code?
  5. Walk me through a system you built. How was it designed, and what would you change now?

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This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building reliable distributed systems and owning production services. You will work on technical problems involving availability, latency, throughput, correctness, fault tolerance, security, and operational excellence. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, SREs, security partners, and other OCI service teams to deliver messaging capabilities that are simple, reliable, and trusted by customers. As an IC4 engineer, you will be expected to drive projects from design through launch, make sound technical tradeoffs, raise the quality bar through code and design reviews, mentor other engineers, and continuously improve the service based on customer needs and production learnings. You should be comfortable working through ambiguity, decomposing complex problems, and delivering practical solutions for a business-critical cloud service.

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Listed on oraclehcm · posted 2026-07-21. ApplySarthi collects openings and links to application pages; the role is advertised by Oracle, not by us.