Senior Principal Software Development Engineer (OCI)

The Operational Development and Tooling team has been the focus point for bringing stabilization to the overall service thereby help in service maturity. Our group is responsible for the charter to build services, tools, systems, and processes that enhance OCI Operability through improved observability, testing, and automation to OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) services. We are working on exciting technologies to detect Large Scale Events (outages) in an automated fashion before they happen. Your team will have diverse expertise in systems, networking, and software development to provide the stability, performance and reliability our customers come to expect. We work with multiple service development teams, identify cross-team issues with associated operational risk, and work with many teams across the organization to resolve underlying problems.  With a mix of engineering solutions, troubleshooting expertise, and general operational guidance this role also requires communication and organizational skills. You are the interface between Engineering Operations and Service Teams. The work delivered is mission critical and directly contributes to our customer’s success.

Career Level - IC5

We are looking for a full stack engineer with expertise and real-world experience in developing and architecting applications that are used at scale. You should be comfortable with API Development as well as front end application development. These are exciting time in our space, we are growing fast, still at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives. 

About You:

• You are an experienced cloud engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-scale, high-impact solutions
• You are obsessed with the customer, always exceeding expectations
• You have excellent communication skills. You can clearly explain complex technical concepts
• You are a disciplined engineer who understands the importance of high standards, never satisfied with mediocrity and constantly striving for excellence
• You are comfortable with ambiguity in a chaotic and fluid environment
• You are passionate about technology and are not afraid to defend your opinions or position with peers/superiors

 Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience shipping scalable, cloud native distributed systems
• 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, Python and GO.
• Writes correct, secure, maintainable, robust code and appropriate tests.
• Collaborates on planning and identifying and mitigating risks in their project.
• You are 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.
• Drives operational readiness & excellence of their features & subsystems.
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting services on OCI, AWS, Azure or Google Cloud 
• Hands on experience building large scale services through entire software development lifecycle. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear, concise manner to all audiences. 
• Results driven; thrives in a development environment that is agile, collaborative and in start-up mode, even when faced with ambiguity. 
• Trusted to serve as Tier2 or specialized escalation point for operations events. 
• Develops new metrics and dashboards to improve situational awareness. 
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc. 

 

(Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development)

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

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