Principal Systems Engineer - AI/GPU infrastructure
Oracle · Posted Oct 27
Cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, database systems, and AI-powered business applications
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About the role
The AI Infra Operations team at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) manages GPU infrastructure across multiple regions, ensuring high availability. The role involves building automation and operational tooling for GPU fleets, observability, and reliability. This Principal Systems Engineer will lead automation development, incident response, and mentoring for OCI GPU operations.
What you will do
- Build and maintain automation and operational tooling for OCI GPU infrastructure across multiple geographic regions.
- Drive collaboration with software engineers, hardware teams, and operations partners to maintain a highly available GPU fleet.
- Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics for GPU fleet health, performance, capacity, and utilization using tools such as Grafana.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for complex GPU host and repair issues
- Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis to remove blockers affecting GPU capacity, availability, and regional deployments.
- Continuously improve AI2 Ops processes, GPU fleet automation, and OCI region build readiness.
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for critical infrastructure issues.
- Document operational procedures, automation workflows, troubleshooting guides, and runbooks.
- Build and improve AI agents, ensuring safe rollout, execution and monitoring.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers in operational best practices, provide senior technical support, and drive constant improvement.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of software operations or infrastructure automation experience with strong proficiency in Python and Bash.
- Expert Linux administration experience, particularly Ubuntu and Oracle Linux, in large-scale production environments.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, including peer-to-peer, node-to-node, and service-to-service communication patterns.
- Strong data-center and host-lifecycle experience, including provisioning, validation, repair workflows, hardware replacement, and fleet recovery.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Experience with observability tooling, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and alerting.
- Experience with AI agents and tooling
- Experience leading on-call operations and incident response.
Preferred qualifications
- Hands-on experience with GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA and AMD based systems, and familiarity with GPU shapes or instance families.
- Experience operating or automating GPU, compute, or other large-scale cloud infrastructure.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology company specializing in cloud-engineered hardware, enterprise software, and database management systems. It provides comprehensive cloud solutions such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Applications (OCA) to power digital transformations globally. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a major player in enterprise AI integration and database solutions.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 141000 employees
- Founded
- 1977
- Location
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $56B raised
- 2025-10-24Post IPO Debt$18B
- 2025-02-03Conventional Debt$18B
Leadership
Lawrence J. Ellison
Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer
Clay Magouyrk
Chief Executive Officer
Mike Sicilia
Chief Executive Officer
Hilary Maxson
Chief Financial Officer
Jae Evans
Global Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
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