Software Developer 4

Oracle•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Design, develop, troubleshoot software services and tools for OCI's network automation team. The individual will serve as the technical lead for team projects, contribute to roadmap development to scale the tools/services to support new network designs. They will mentor junior engineers, participate in operational rotations, and provide break-fix support and escalation for event remediation, including leading root cause analysis (RCA) efforts. The role includes collaborating with networking services to integrate support tooling and evolving business requirements. The role focuses on improving availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, scaling, monitoring for entire services and ecosystems. Responsibilities include ownership of several small projects and services, building scalable distributed systems, improving operational tooling, practices, deployment processes, and mentoring team members. The individual will modify the architecture of subsystems or services to enhance reliability, availability, performance, and scale, participate in architectural design reviews, and improve pipelines, deployments, and validations across components. They will own and enhance metrics, KPIs, SLOs, and visualizations, automate operational challenges, and develop complex scripts leveraging domain expertise. The individual works independently on most projects, seeking guidance only for areas requiring experience in building and operating mission-critical systems in the cloud industry. 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.Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future. You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged. The 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 30 regions worldwide. The mission of our Network Automation team is to build services and tools that allows our customers to design, build, scale, and operate OCI networks. Our customers want auto-remediation of incidents, touch less and automated operations such as upgrading 1000s of devices and pushing configuration changes safely, adding network capacity seamlessly. We help Oracle build the best-in-class Network Control Plane to meet our customer needs. We are looking for software tech leadership to continue our rapid growth. This role offers a terrific opportunity to build distributed services that enable multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud applications. You should be comfortable at building complex distributed systems involving management of 1000s of devices. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Requirements

BS/MS/PhD in Compute Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
8-10+ years of experience in software development, design, implementation and operation of large-scale distributed services
Proficiency with Java/Python/C++ and Object-Oriented programming
Excellent knowledge of basic data structures, search/sort algorithms
Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of cloud computing & networking technologies
Experience developing service-oriented systems, REST
Experience developing network automation or device management solutions
Experience with Jira, Confluence, BitBucket
Knowledge of Scrum & Agile Methodologies

Responsibilities

Design, develop, troubleshoot software services and tools
Serve as the technical lead for team projects
Contribute to roadmap development to scale the tools/services to support new network designs
Mentor junior engineers
Participate in operational rotations
Provide break-fix support and escalation for event remediation, including leading root cause analysis (RCA) efforts
Collaborate with networking services to integrate support tooling and evolving business requirements
Improve availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, scaling, monitoring for entire services and ecosystems
Ownership of several small projects and services
Building scalable distributed systems
Improving operational tooling, practices, deployment processes
Modify the architecture of subsystems or services to enhance reliability, availability, performance, and scale
Participate in architectural design reviews
Improve pipelines, deployments, and validations across components
Own and enhance metrics, KPIs, SLOs, and visualizations
Automate operational challenges
Develop complex scripts leveraging domain expertise

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