Senior Member of Technical Staff

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.

The Applications Platform team aims to provide a rich set of services and tools to enable building and deploying Cloud Services as containerized workloads and manage the entire development and deployment lifecycle. Oracle’s Container Engine for Kubernetes, Oracle Serverless and API Gateway are the flagship offerings from this organization. We are also building new services to provide an Oracle Managed Kubernetes, App Development Platform, Application Governance and compliance services. This role is within Pegasus team, which manages a platform for providing service templates, configuration artifacts and tools with built-in best practices to develop OCI services.

 

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers and technical leads with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. 

What does the position offer? 

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, cloud native technologies, and highly available services looking to lead development of scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure systems that underpin the core of OCI’s compute platform. 

If this is you, at OCI you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. 

You work on a team that owns the design, development, and operations for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure in the Cloud Native space In the Applications Platform team you could  be working on the Managed Kubernetes , Serverless and API Management offerings. You would have a chance to  build new services from scratch and also scale and operate existing services. 

You should be a distributed systems generalist, able to understand broad systems interactions, have excellent design skills while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower level system interactions. 

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

You would be working on components that include implementing emerging interfaces in the Kubernetes ecosystem and maintaining the Kubernetes Providers for OCI.

Qualifications

General Skills

• 8+ years of experience designing, delivering and operating large scale, highly available, distributed systems.
• Excellent knowledge of Java, Object Oriented Fundamentals or experience with scripting languages such as Python. 
• Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills and demonstrated ability to deliver quality code
• Experience working on multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus
• Excellent analytical skills and willingness to look at alternate paths to a solution
• Experience designing and driving technical solutions and mentoring engineers.
• Strong leadership, collaboration and communication skills.

Specific Technology Exposure

• A strong understanding of the architecture of commonly available IaaS solutions with active contributions to architectural enhancements and design.
• A strong understanding of container technology like Docker and container orchestration technology like Kubernetes.
• Cloud design patterns - familiarity with AWS, Azure, Google will be an advantage

Profile of desired experience  and expectations

• 8+ years of experience as a Technical Lead / Software Developer
• Master’s degree in Computer Science
• Prior experience with operating and building cloud services would be a big plus
• Experience with Kubernetes architecture and with Kubernetes services from AWS, Azure, Google will be an advantage
• Prior DevOps exposure is a plus 
• Willingness to perform DevOps and support on-call as well. 
• Should have a bias for action and should be willing to take ownership of a problem and solve it to completion.
• Should be willing to take ownership of larger outcomes in design as well service operations

Disclaimer:

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