Vet Academy-Java or Python Software Development Engineer 2 – U.S. Military and Military Spouse

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you with the opportunity to collaborate, build, and operate a suite of massive-scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best cloud products that meet the needs of our customers, who are tackling some of the world’s biggest opportunities.

 We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. Our engineers have a significant technical and business impact at every level by designing and building innovative new systems to power our customers' business-critical applications.  

As a member of the OCI for OpenSearch technologies like PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Cassandra, etc., you will have the unique opportunity to help realize the Oracle cloud vision of building the next-generation cloud from the ground up, as well as work with the latest PostgreSQL open-source project codebase. We value self-initiated systems engineers with a passion for learning, building, deploying, and operating infrastructure services globally and those who welcome the challenges at scale, all while being part of cloud operations with the autonomy to structure your own journey. 

As an SDE on the PostgreSQL team, you will have the opportunity to: 

• Design architectures and create a new service that operates reliably at an extremely large scale.
• Evaluate and improve the security of the deployed system.
• Identify the overall behavioral characteristics of the service and define and measure key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Utilize a deep understanding of the service to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.

This position combines systems engineering, automation engineering, and network operations. If you are a curious problem solver who values simplicity, is comfortable with ambiguity, and is excited to learn, you will be a great fit! 

Career Level - IC2

Responsibilities 

• Use technologies like Kubernetes and Terraform to deploy and operate highly available, high-performance distributed systems.
• Automate tasks to enable continuous delivery and ensure continuous availability with minimal human overhead.
• Define and drive change management, continuous integration, and deployment best practices.
• Contribute to product roadmaps by identifying areas of need and engaging with stakeholders to scope work.
• Help create and maintain real-world production architectures, scalability, and system design.
• Define and document the technical architecture of complex and highly scalable products.
• Use a methodical approach to troubleshoot large, complex, interconnected systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide optimal support for our mission-critical systems.
• Raise the bar for engineering best practices
   

Basic Qualifications:

• 1-4 years of experience with application development
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals
• Proficiency in any one modern language such as Java, Python, Ruby, Go.  Java Preferred
• Experience in coding.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Skilled in one or more of the following: PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, network architecture, application security
• Strong interest in participation and contribution to open-source projects
• Familiarity with several of the following technologies: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud), CI/CD systems (TeamCity/Jenkins), Docker, Linux (Oracle Linux/RedHat)
• Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable in complex, rapidly evolving software development environments
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Ability to drive, follow, and evangelize cross-team processes.
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills
• Experience running large-scale customer-facing web services.
• Experience using distributed source code management systems such as Git.
• Experience using ticket tracking systems such as JIRA.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments.
• Commitment to capturing and maintaining institutional knowledge.
• Government clearance is a plus.

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