Senior Software Development Engineer

Oracle • Nashville, TN

3d

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 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 solving some of the world’s biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for hard-working, 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. Technical Operations and Support (TOS) Platform Engineering org is an exciting new group focused on the intersection of customer experience and support operations, and are leading the are modernization and standardization of how OCI provides support to its customer. We are looking for software engineers who are ready to take on new challenges in building a brand new highly available and scalable ticketing platform used for all cloud operations. As a Senior Member on this Team, you will be contributing to the effort in defining, designing, and delivering the platform using latest technologies on OCI. You will partner with product team, learn about the existing challenges, and influence the vision and direction. You will be responsible for the entire software lifecycle – development, testing, CI/CD and production operations. You must balance between product feature development and production operational concerns like writing run books, ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and events leveraging a plethora of internal tooling at OCI. From a technology perspective, this is a greenfield development environment with a huge amount of autonomy, leaving us free to build and innovate without being encumbered by legacy products and services. Career Level - IC3

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience shipping scalable, cloud native distributed systems
• BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
• Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms)
• Proficient in at Java/C#, Python and shell scripting tools
• Experience with container orchestration like Kubernetes/Docker Swarm/Mesos, experience working on Helm Charts, etc.
• Strong working experience on GitHub/Bitbucket, TeamCity/Hudson, Maven/Gradle
• experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols
• Experience with components of modern infrastructure like service discovery, secret storage, containerization, software-defined networking, etc.
• Experience with production operations and best practices for putting quality code in production and troubleshoot issues when they arise
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)

Nice To Haves

• MS in Computer Science
• Experience in a fast-paced start-up environment
• Experience building control plane/data plane solutions for cloud native companies
• Experience in diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving performance issues in complex environments
• Deep understanding of Unix-like operating systems
• Production experience with Cloud and ML technologies
• Data science and machine learning knowledge would be helpful but not required (Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development)

Responsibilities

• contributing to the effort in defining, designing, and delivering the platform using latest technologies on OCI
• partnering with product team, learn about the existing challenges, and influence the vision and direction
• responsible for the entire software lifecycle – development, testing, CI/CD and production operations
• balance between product feature development and production operational concerns like writing run books, ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and events leveraging a plethora of internal tooling at OCI

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level