Sr Principal Software Engineer/Consulting Member of Technical Staff
About The Position
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) enables allow you to build and operate a 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 tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve complex problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. Our engineers have a significant technical and business impact at every level designing and building innovative new systems to power our customers’ business-critical applications We are reimagining what's possible with a true cloud-native data service to provide unparalleled performance and durability with our new large-scale distributed services and storage backend. Our services expose highly available, high-performance storage volumes and backups to our elastic compute customers. We’re looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed database systems, caching, storage infrastructure, transaction processing, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle, you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. An engineer at any level can have a significant technical and business impact.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud services
- Proven track record of owning large features end-to-end: problem definition, design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operation (SLOs/metrics)
- Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems concepts
- Deep knowledge of Linux and Linux internals (process scheduling, memory management, filesystems, networking)
- Experience designing multi-tenant, highly available, and scalable services (HA, DR, capacity planning)
- Proficiency in one or more of: Java, Go, C/C++, or Rust; plus scripting (Python/Bash)
- Production-grade observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and performance profiling/tuning
- Security-minded engineering: secure coding, authN/Z, TLS, secrets management
Nice To Haves
- Experience working on open source software/contributions to open source Redis/memcached/Cassandra/PSQL is a strong plus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
