Principal Software Engineer

Welcome to the Forerunner organization at OCI! Our team is leading a wide spectrum of cutting-edge initiatives that are spanning across all possible software stack at Oracle, interacting with all OCI Service offerings (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) and reaching both internal and external customers.  

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work with teams of software engineers responsible for the software design, development, and operations for our new and existing products. You should be able to architect broad systems interactions, be hands-on, be able to investigate any part of the stack and have a good sense of cloud infrastructure and networking knowledge. You should value simplicity and impact, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Our Principal engineers are also the people who can work independently and provide technical leadership to the broader organization. You should have experience developing and operating high-scale services, and an understanding of how to make these cloud-scale services resilient. The ideal candidate will be technically strong and productive; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements. You understand operational excellence and know-how to infuse a culture of being proactive within your team. You recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data-driven approaches.

Basic Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of total experience in software development
• Demonstrated ability to write great code using Java, GoLang, C#, or similar OO languages
• Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle
• Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure
• Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one livesite servicing
• Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive
• Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market-leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as technical lead on a large-scale cloud service
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) languages, preferably Terraform
• Experience in developing and designing solutions with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience testing web-based applications with REST APIs, especially applications requiring IAM/SAML authentication.
• Experience with observability tools and practices.
• Strong knowledge of Computer Networking (OSI layers, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, Routers, Gateways, Subnets, etc.)
• Knowledge of Linux internals, Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)
• Experience with hiring, mentorship and raising the talent bar across the organization

Career Level - IC4

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

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: from $94,200 to $223,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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