Senior Member of Technical Staff

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.

Responsibilities

Senior Member of Technical Staff - Observability and Developer Lifecycle, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the worlds biggest challenges.

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 customers business critical applications.

What is Observability and Developer Lifecycle Groupat OCI?

The Observability organization at Oracle's Cloud is building new services from scratch that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. In the observability space, we are addressing complex, large scale and connected event platforms that manifests as the following services - Logging, Monitoring and Event Correlation, CMDB services. These services are cornerstones of the DevOps capabilities offered by OCI and offer a wide variety of technical problems to be solved and customer focused innovations to be created.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for engineers with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. Youve operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You work on most projects and tasks independently. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances, but have to abide by compliance and regulations.

The ideal candidate will own the software design and development for major components of Oracles Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

What are the biggest challenges for the team?

The team is building a brand new service.The dynamic and fast growth of the business is driving us to build brand new innovative technologies.We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution.

We need engineers who can build services that can reliably protect our customer cloud environment. We need engineers who can figure out how we can keep up our solution in a fast pace to securely protect our customers. We need engineers who can build services that enable us to offer even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Cloud.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment
• Experience driving feature design reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers through the entire launch process
• Strong development experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar OO languages
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures
• Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
• Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules
• Experience with Kafka, Apache Spark, Lucene and other big data technologies