Principal Software Developer

Oracle•Seattle, WA

13h•$99,600 - $234,600

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more. As part of the Technical Strategy Oversight team (TSO) within OCI, our mission is to maximize customer choice and transparency while delivering high-value cloud solutions. We are at the strategic center of OCI’s most ambitious projects—architecting and delivering next-generation platforms and frameworks to empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services.

Requirements

Visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud.
Recognized expert in the field.
Superb technical, research and analytical capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively to delight customers.
Established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.
Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most demanding workloads.
Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.
Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps.
Deliver Cloud solutions for one of the two new OCI services: Key value store (a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service) or a journaling service (reliably and efficiently records sequential, immutable logs).
Envision, collaborate with Architects and drive the software design and development for new major data-plane components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.
Define the foundations for the next generation of OCI data-planes, making deep architectural changes calls as an outstanding builder and technical leader with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects.
Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures.
Perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
Work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to junior team members.
Balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements.
Understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.