Principal Software Engineer

You will be a principal member of the engineering team that builds the Oracle Container Instances platform at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Container Instances enables you to easily run applications on serverless compute optimized for containers including APIs, web apps, CI/CD jobs, automation tasks, data/media processing, dev/test environments, and more. Day-to-day activities will range from leading design and discovery discussions, reviewing roadmap with stakeholders, prototyping, and hands-on software development.  You are self-motivated and possess a wide range of skills and experience. You should have the ability to understand business needs, work closely with product owners and strike a good balance between business goals and technical implementations. You are expected to be independent and be expected to contribute to a wide range of high-impact projects across the organization.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, implement, and support Oracle Container Instances backend APIs, SDKs, CLIs, and various other components.
• Hands-on software development at scale and develop code that can scale to millions of queries per second.
• Analyze & interpret business needs, develop technical specs and designs.
• Troubleshoot production issues with engineering and support teams.
• Train other members of the team to ensure knowledge transfer is occurring so that there are no single point of failure and knowledge gaps within the team. 
• Ensure everyone on the team is productive and developing broad skill sets over time.
• Participate in testing, security, and compliance processes as needed.
• Build and maintain tools for deployments, security patching, and vulnerability management
• Contribute to operations and improve service health KPIs on an ongoing basis

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent in work experience and self-study.
• Advanced degree is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to deliver the items listed in the major responsibilities section.
• At least 7 years of experience in application development. Specific experience with scaling backend data systems a plus.
• Expertise in Java, Python, C/C++, GO (two or more preferred)
• Knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DBaaS, NoSQL
• Experience building multi-tenant virtualized infrastructure services.
• Experience deploying and operating services that run on Linux systems with 100% uptime goals.
• General knowledge of the following categories of network systems: Multiprocessing, Threading, Distributed Systems, Load Balancing, and High Availability.
• Experience with root cause analysis, monitoring, alarming, and observability patterns of large-scale distributed systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with minimum direction.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries and within groups.

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 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 to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.<