Principal software engineer / consulting member of technical staff

Job Description

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) enables allow you to build and operate a massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve complex problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. Our engineers have a significant technical and business impact at every level designing and building innovative new systems to power our customers' business-critical applications

We are reimagining what's possible with a true cloud-native data service to provide unparalleled performance and durability with our new large-scale distributed services and storage backend. Our services expose highly available, high-performance storage volumes and backups to our

elastic compute customers. We're looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed database systems, caching, storage infrastructure, transaction processing, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle, you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. An engineer at any level can have a significant technical and business impact.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud services

• Proven track record of owning large features end-to-end: problem definition, design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation (SLOs/metrics)

• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems concepts

• Deep knowledge of Linux and Linux internals (process scheduling, memory management, filesystems, networking)

• Experience designing multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable services (HA, DR, capacity planning)

• Proficiency in one or more of: Java, Go, C/C++, or Rust; plus scripting (Python/Bash)

• Production-grade observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and performance profiling/tuning

• Security-minded engineering: secure coding, authN/Z, TLS, secrets management

• Experience working on open source software/contributions to open source Redis/memcached/Cassandra/PSQL is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

As a member of the software engineering division, you will apply intermediate to advanced knowledge of software architecture to perform software development tasks, including developing, debugging, or designing software applications or operating systems according to provided design specifications, and to conceive solutions for open-ended and/or green-field market requirements. Build enhancements, new components, and new services within an existing software architecture and suggest improvements to the architecture, operational practices, scalability, and resiliency. You will:

• Work with architects and business stakeholders to deliver new features/services and improvements.

• Debug operational issues and suggest fixes, raise the operational bar, and improve the scalability of service(s)

• Assist customers with onboarding to the service as needed

• Perform on-call operations duties on a rotating basis

• Reimagine service experiences and deliver proof points that improve the service along one or more dimensions (Semantic understanding to improve Operations, Usability, Cost to Serve, Availability, Storage tiering to name a few)

• This is a challenging role with expectations including, but not limited to

• Technical leadership to drive critical work items, unlocking onboarding of large customers, service scalability, new product initiatives to name a few

• Drive roadmap/vision/competitive analysis and/or bootstrap work streams to keep pace with landscape changes - covert and overt from competition

• Excellent communication skills to build consensus across stakeholders and, when needed, collaborate on a business case to seek executive leadership approval.

• Bring technical acumen and foresight in build/buy/partnership decisions

Top Four Skills for the Ideal Candidate

• Excellent design, architecture, leadership, and coding skills

• Software Engineering and architecture experience with distributed systems/managed services within large-scale environments

• 10+ years of experience working on challenging issues with a self-starter / self-motivated attitude

• Hands-on operations experience in a DevOps environment and a track record of delivering results blended with innovation and operational agility

We will consider candidates with PhD in Computer Science disciplines and 4+ years of industry experience as well.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $251,600 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:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

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.

11 paid holidays

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.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

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.

Career Level - IC5

About Us

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