Consulting Member of the Technical Staff

Oracle•Redwood City, CA

About The Position

If you are passionate about advanced development of next-generation large-scale distributed systems designed for the most popular database in the world and optimized for the cloud, we would like to talk with you. As a senior member database software engineering team, you will lead, innovate, influence, design, develop, and operate advanced features across cloud-native scale highly available distributed systems, database core engine, operating systems, and storage subsystems. The position will leverage your expertise in the following (or related) areas: Database kernel development Query processing or Transaction Processing System software, including operating system kernels Cloud computing Distributed Systems Protocols Machine learning Computer architecture At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of 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 difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications. We are reimagining what's possible with infrastructure and core database systems to provide unparalleled performance and durability with our new large scale distributed services and world-class infrastructure backend. Our services expose highly available, high-performance capabilities for our large set of customers. We’re looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, 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 significant technical and business impact. As a senior member database software engineering team, you will lead, innovate, influence, design, develop, and operate advanced features across cloud-native scale highly available distributed systems, database core engine, operating systems, and storage subsystems. The responsibilities will include defining detailed design specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software. The position will leverage your expertise in the following (or related) areas: Database kernel development Query processing or Transaction Processing System software, including operating system kernels Cloud computing Distributed Systems Protocols Machine learning Computer architecture

Requirements

Experienced professionals with a PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Electrical & Computer Engineering
At least 10+ years of professional experience
Strong deep technical knowledge on database core internals, proficiency in systems design and development
Proficiency in developing large production quality code in C++/C in a multi-threaded environment, advanced data structures and algorithms
Demonstrated excellence in building and operating large scale and/or cloud native products and software services
Excellent interpersonal and communication including writing & presentation skills
Ability to effectively collaborate across functional boundaries in a fast paced agile development environment

Nice To Haves

Previous experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora, Horizon DB, Alloy DB etc. is a BIG plus

Responsibilities

Cloud Engineering
Database & Infrastructure Development
defining detailed design specifications for significant new projects
specify, design and develop software according to those specifications
perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software

Benefits

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