Senior Principal Software Developer

Job Opportunity

We are facing several engineering challenges in critical foundational data-plane services that powers the next gen OCI cloud. We need you to challenge existing engineering assumptions and boundaries, bring in your expertise in highly performant, reliable, available system engineering to take OCI data-planes to the next level. This is your opportunity to build innovative solutions for our customers from the ground up. These are exciting times and our team is still young and growing fast, working on ambitious new initiatives such as providing canonical implementation of core components for data planes through a data-plane runtime framework, developing a remote storage solution with the latency and performance comparable to that of a local NVMe drive or developing standard and tooling to identify critical performance improvements across OCI data-planes.

We are looking for self-motivated technical leaders with passion and expertise in solving challenging system, data-plane level architecture and performance problems. You should be a rock solid developer able to dive deep into low-level systems, design solutions in networking, storage high scale data-planes. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Responsibilities

With your superb technical, research and analytical capabilities and demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively to delight our customers, you will envision, collaborate with executives for investment and drive the software design and development for new major data-plane components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. You will define the foundations for the next generation of OCI data-planes, making deep architectural changes calls as an outstanding builder and technical leader with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects. You will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems. You will be able to work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to junior team members. 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've made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument your service. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.

Required skills include : 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, development and operational experience. Strong experience working on data plane architectures in distributed systems, storage, databases, or data streaming systems. Strong experience designing, developing and optimizing high performance network solutions using C / C++ or Rust. Strong experience with high-concurrency systems. Working experience with some of the following technologies : OS / kernels, performance tools, distributed debugging tools. Strong team leader with ability to lead teams in technical direction and strategy with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills. Comfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environments. Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes. Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies. Experience working with geographically distributed teams. Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments. Understanding of AI tools for improving developer productivity.

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 in USD from : $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following : medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion; short term disability and long term disability; life insurance and AD&D supplemental life insurance (Employee / Spouse / Child); health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts; pre-tax commuter and parking benefits; 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match; paid time off; 11 paid holidays; paid sick leave; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; Employee Stock Purchase Plan; financial planning and group legal; voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. Career Level - IC5.

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