Principal Software Developer

Job Description Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more. At OCI platform organization, our mission is to provide core platform services for OCI cloud and customers. We’re embarking on ambitious new initiative to scale our tier-0 services for 10x growth. If this is you, at Oracle you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. You have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You’ve built and operated high-scale public cloud services and have deep understanding of control plane architecture. You work on most projects and tasks independently and extend technical leadership to development teams. You can go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus. We are looking for engineers who have solid experience in development, and enhancement of new and existing products and services from inception and design through deployment. You will be building cloud-based services, distributed systems, comprehensive monitoring systems and their integration with other business applications. You will conduct code and architecture reviews of the products and services and contribute to architecture standards and community practices. You must be experienced in various architecture patterns, be able to communicate requirements, solution, and architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholder. You will champion creating an engineering environment that embodies the best development and testing practices for delivering secure, scalable, and highly available services. Be agile and innovative in solving business problems. Evaluate the performance of cloud services, identify inefficiencies, and design cost-effective solutions. Benchmark OCI services against competitors and identify performance improvement opportunities. Collaborate with service teams to integrate performance evaluation tools into CI/CD pipelines. Quantify and communicate the financial impact of inefficiencies, linking performance data to business metrics. Develop and implement improvements in shared components, libraries, and runtime configurations (e.g., Java runtime, SDKs, and images). 9+ years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment ~9+ years development experience in a modern programming language, such as Java, C++, C# ~ Experience in data mining and analysis on large datasets. ~ Deep understanding of Linux administration and networking stack configuration, as well as production linux infrastructures management. ~ Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service control or data planes ~ Proven experience in performance optimization of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. ~ Hands-on experience in software performance profiling, analysis and optimization. ~ Deep understanding of object-oriented design and SDK development, specifically within a cloud environment ~ Experience working closely with architects, principals, product and program managers to deliver product features on time and with high quality. ~ Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals. ~ Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, and standard network architectures. ~ Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies. ~ BS degree in Computer Science or related field (MS preferred) Building mission critical distributed systems Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) Experience driving security reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers from inception through launch Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules