Senior Software Engineer

Looking for a strong Java/Go developer with experience in distributed systems and developing services in the cloud.

Career Level - IC3

Application Platform

• Are you interested in building a service on the cloud?
• Do you have a passion for solving complex design problems and operational issues?
• Does change challenge you?

Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best in class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

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 Application Platform team aims to provide a rich set of services and tools to enable building and deploying of 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 building new services to provide an Oracle Managed Kubernetes, App Development Platform, Application Governance and Compliance services.

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.  At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications.  

What does the position offer? 

We’re looking for a Software Engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, cloud native technologies, and highly available services.

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 Application Platform team you would be working on the Managed Kubernetes offering. 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, 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

• 3-8+ years of experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available, distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of GoLang or Java, Object Oriented Fundamentals and experience with scripting languages such as Python. 
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proven track record of understanding and implementation of the microservice design patterns
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Strong 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 driving technical solutions and mentoring engineers.

Profile of desired experience  and expectations

• 3-8+ years of experience as a Software Developer
• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Engineering. A degree in Computer Science would be a big plus
• Prior experience with operating and building cloud services would be a big plus
• Prior experience in container technology like Docker and container orchestration technology like Kubernetes is a big plus.
• Exposure to managing deployments on OCI, Azure, AWS and GCP is a big plus.
• 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.
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