Consulting Member Technical Staff (JoinOCI-SDE)

Team Overview: The Virtual Machine Data Plane team is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing the virtualization stack that supports running customer virtual machines. Our hypervisors run across all CPU architectures and virtualize underlying hardware capabilities like CPU, GPU, NVMe with near-bare metal performance. We are continually pushing the boundaries of virtualization technology to achieve our mission of offering customers highly-performant, always-available, and elastic virtual machines. 

Role Summary: As a Consulting Member of Technical Staff, you will be responsible for leading software development efforts for significant features in Oracle Compute's service offerings. The role requires a blend of hands-on engineering expertise and leadership skills, focusing on building and operating large-scale, highly available cloud services. The ideal candidate will mentor team members, drive high-priority programs, and contribute to the evolution of standard practices within the software engineering division.

Career Level: IC5

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the software design and development for major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure Virtual Machine product building new solutions across the virtualization software stack
• Drive operational excellence and best practices to improve the quality of the hypervisor and virtual machine platform
• Deep dive into any part of the stack from low-level Linux systems to high-level distributed system interactions to root cause issues and ensure our systems are resilient and fault tolerant. 

Value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Career Level - IC5

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the software design and development for major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure Virtual Machine product building new solutions across the virtualization software stack
• Drive operational excellence and best practices to improve the quality of the hypervisor and virtual machine platform
• Deep dive into any part of the stack from low-level Linux systems to high-level distributed system interactions to root cause issues and ensure our systems are resilient and fault tolerant. 
• Value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software development experience in systems or application-level engineering
• 3+ years of experience with OS kernel internals (e.g. memory management, device driver architecture)
• 3+ years of experience with PC architecture and virtualization (e.g. QEMU/KVM, Hyper-V, ESX) 
• Proficiency in at least two of the following programming languages: Go, Rust, Java, Python
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and operating systems
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
• Working familiarity of networking protocols (L2/L3/L4) and standard network architecture
• Experience with Linux performance tools
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with GPU, SmartNIC, SR-IOV/VFIO, vDPA, TPM, SEV, live migration

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parki