Principal Software Engineering

Oracle’s Health organization is building healthcare services that operate at high scale in the cloud and interface with healthcare applications. Our customers run their applications on our cloud container platform, and we enable them to create exciting new healthcare applications by deploying them to infrastructure that is highly available and highly scalable. We build, monitor and support cloud infrastructure for Oracle Health teams to enable the creation of new healthcare services. We are growing fast, we are still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives for the container platform. We have plans to expand worldwide and serve a wide range of application customers across the Oracle healthcare space. 

We offer interesting opportunities and growth for engineers with the expertise and passion to for healthcare and/or infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new platform systems that are paramount to Oracle’s business needs. The container platform has real world impact wherein our success will directly affect customer experience, and that means there are high expectations for this team, especially in our world today that is so focused on the concerns around health and the pandemic. 

We value self-driven engineers who have a passion to learn, build, and deploy healthcare services on the cloud. You will have the opportunity to work on challenges at scale and be part of cloud operations with the autonomy to structure your own career with us. The role calls for engineers to be comfortable with learning new things. Most of the engineering team operates in a hybrid manner wherein they’re learning and owning some frontend, backend, and/or infrastructure. The culture of the team leans towards enablement, autonomy, and experimentation wherein we work towards technical designs and processes that work best to fit the problem and the team organically instead of prescribed rigid rules. You are part of building the culture on the team and we value your ideas and feedback. 

Career Level - IC4

As a software engineer on the Oracle Healthcare Container Platform team, you will have the opportunity to:

• Design and support software that enables building, monitoring, and supporting Kubernetes clusters.
• Focus on improving the attributes of availability, performance, and monitoring of our systems, just to name a few
• Evaluate and improve the security of the deployed system
• Required skills include: Kubernetes, networking, security, and infrastructure
• As a team, we automate and own all our infrastructure build out, our ideal candidate is an SRE that can write object-oriented languages and strives to constantly remove toil. 
• Utilize a deep understanding of the platform to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations
• Try out different parts of the stack, we are encouraging of people to grow a bit beyond their comfort zone so that they can grow to become empathetic technical leaders one day in the future.
• Open to gaining government clearance.
• Propose and implement architecture changes to existing systems to improve reliability, availability, and performance
• Own and improve metrics and KPIs for a system
• Works independently on most projects

Job Responsibilities

• Use technologies such as Kubernetes, Terraform, helm and CloudFront to deploy and operate highly available, high-performance distributed systems
• Automate tasks to enable CI/CD and ensure continuous availability with minimal human overhead
• Working with the team to bring up development and operational pain points and coming up with solutions to solve those pain points
• Ownership of small projects and tooling to improve the immediate team in ops or deployment tooling or practices
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve networking issues
• Contribute to product roadmaps by identifying areas of need from the application teams and engaging with stakeholders to scope work and identify timelines
• We work closely as a team. We are remote and we believe in mutually learning from each other. Experience with mentoring and collaboration is a must.
• Help create and maintain real-world production architectures, scalability, and system design
• Define and document 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
• Strive towards the goal of becoming a leader, whether that’s a technical leader in the contributor track or a people leader in the management track. We have an expectation of self-driven growth from every engineer.
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