Consulting Member of Technical Staff - OCI Compute Architecture

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute team is responsible for providing bare metal and virtual machines at scale to our customers; these include CPUs and GPUs. With rapid growth in machine learning, the demand for GPUs and CPUs is exploding, making performance and efficiency of cloud scale services a critical area of investment. 

The Core Architecture team focuses on identifying performance and efficiency constraints within the entire lifecycle of compute services from server ingestion and inventory management, scalable data stores to API performance. Consulting engineers are responsible for performing deep analysis into business problems and proposing & incubating new solutions that address the needs of some of our largest customers. 

You will take the lead in defining the architecture for the brand-new server lifecycle management capabilities that will power the next generation of the Compute Control Plane.  This initiative spans across multiple Compute domains, from GPU validation to repairs, and you will drive engineers from these organizations to build cohesive microservice based solutions that will enable Compute to scale for growing customer demands. 

We are looking for a hands-on senior engineer with technical breadth, proven experience in solving cloud scale problems, distributed systems design & implementation experience to build fault tolerant solutions that will form the foundations of the next generation of Compute offerings. The candidate is expected to have strong written and verbal communications skills, the ability to lead projects across organizational boundaries, and experience representing their work to senior leaders.

 

As a Consulting Member of Technical Staff, you will lead the definition and evolution of cloud scale services using a distributed microservices based architecture. You will define software development best practices within your organization to develop and deploy high quality software at a rapid pace. You will identify business KPIs for your software and iteratively build impactful solutions that solve hard customer problems. You will be responsible for hands-on software design, development, and debugging in a cloud native environment.

Qualifications:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related IT field or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
• 10+ years of Dev/DevOps experience with large scale, highly available distributed systems
• Proficiency with Cloud-based Data Store primitives
• Proficiency in Java programming patterns
• Experience with operating distributed services at scale
• Expertise in Linux and operating systems
• Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, strong ownership and drive
• Deep understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems
• Propose, scope, design and direct automation, optimizations, and enhancements
• Mentor junior engineers

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with Cloud and CICD environments
• Proficiency with Terraform, Docker
• Proficiency with modern build tools and pipelines
• Proficiency building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure
• Proficiency with change control management and mature operating processes
• Proficiency with Security including Identity, SSL and certificates

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 parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided