Principal Software Engineer

Oracle•Seattle, WA

52d•$114,600 - $234,600

About The Position

Are you interested in working on the Storage Infrastructure team that operates with Exabytes of data in 60+ regions? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with industry-leading computing, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. Our team seeks hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed systems, large-scale storage, and scaling services to meet future growth. If this is you, you can be part of the team that drives the best-in-class Storage platform into its next development phase. These are exciting times for the service - we are growing fast and delivering innovative, enterprise-class features to satisfy various customer workloads. As a member of the Block Storage team, you will own the software design and development for core components and features in the Block Storage Service. It would be best if you were a strong programmer and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems and design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Requirements

8+ years experience delivering large scale, highly available distributed systems and backend services.
Extensive experience developing clean code in Java/C++ or similar programming languages and scripting languages such as Python, etc.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi-threading and distributed systems fundamentals.
Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized storage infrastructure, data management.

Responsibilities

Own the software design and development for core components and features in the Block Storage Service.
Dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems.
Design broad distributed system interactions.