Senior Principal Software Developer

Oracle•Santa Clara, CA

11h

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 are part of 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. What You’ll Be Building and Leading End-to-End Solutions: Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale. Foundational Frameworks: Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI’s highest-availability and most demanding workloads. Performance at Scale: Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure. Strategic Innovation: Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps. Why Join Us? Industry Impact: Shape the direction and standards of the global public cloud by leading initiatives with large-scale customer and organizational impact. Personal Growth: Accelerate your career at the intersection of technical and strategic leadership, with opportunities to influence OCI's top priorities and outcomes. Collaborative Leadership: Partner with and mentor diverse, world-class engineering teams while enjoying autonomy and strong executive support. Culture of Excellence: Help foster an inclusive, high-performance workplace where innovators of all backgrounds can thrive, drive change, and deliver excellence.

Requirements

Visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud.
Expertise in delivering complex solutions for one of the two new OCI services: Key value store is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service or A journaling service that reliably and efficiently records sequential, immutable logs (journal entries) of operations or transactions
Ability to mentor senior engineers, drive strategy, and be responsible for cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services.
Respected for providing technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the organization.
Influence reaches across product, engineering, and operational teams, and you routinely collaborate with executive leadership to set and realize long-term strategy.
Superb technical, research and analytical capabilities and demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively to delight our customers
Outstanding builder and technical leader with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects.
Ability to take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures.
Ability to perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
Ability to work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to junior team members.
Ability to go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping.
Ability to balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements.
Ability to automate and instrument your service.
Understanding of operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.

Responsibilities

Deliver complex solutions for one of the two new OCI services: Key value store is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service or A journaling service that reliably and efficiently records sequential, immutable logs (journal entries) of operations or transactions
Mentor senior engineers, drive strategy, and be responsible for cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services.
Provide technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the organization.
Collaborate with executives for investment 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.
Go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping.
Balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements.
Automate and instrument your service.
Instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.