Senior Principal Software Engineer
At Oracle Cloud, we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world. The customer experience is at the heart of every action we take. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.
As a Senior Principal Software Engineer in the Americas SovCloud organization, you will work with teams of software engineers to define and deliver new patterns of operating Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud in air-gapped environments. You will architect broad systems interactions, be hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and have a good sense of cloud infrastructure and networking knowledge. You should value simplicity and impact, have a passion for operations and the customer experience, and enjoy mentoring and developing other software development engineers.
Responsibilities :
- U.S. Citizenship and active U.S. government T / S SCI security clearance required.
- Our Senior Principal engineers are the technical leaders of our government clouds. They must work independently and provide technical leadership to the broader organization of SREs as well as with the architects across the commercial cloud.
- This is a high visibility role that will impact all aspects of the technical patterns for operating the cloud.
- You must be experienced at developing and operating high-scale services, with an understanding of how to make cloud-scale services resilient, debuggable, and operable.
- The ideal candidate will be technically strong, have a passion for mentoring junior engineers as well as collaborating with the most senior architects; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements.
- Your experience integrating complex, large-scale tooling in US Government technology ecosystems will fast-track operational efficiencies.
- You understand operational excellence and know-how to infuse a culture of ownership within your organization.
- You are a skilled communicator an effective champion with OCI service teams for integration and operational optimization of solutions into the ONSR environment.
- Your designs and technical contributions will influence the profitability and scalability of OCI's government cloud solutions.
Basic Qualifications :
U.S. Citizenship and possess and maintain a U.S. government TS / SCI security clearance required.BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience.10+ years of total experience in software development.Demonstrated ability to write great code using Java, Rust, GoLang, C#, or similar OO languages.Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle.Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure.Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one services.Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive.Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market-leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands.Experience developing and delivering software solutions in US government agencies.Preferred Qualifications :
Masters / PhD degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields.Experience in Infrastructure-as-a-Service, viz. OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure.Experience in building applications at cloud scale.Strong knowledge of computer networking (OSI layers, HTTP, DNS, TCP / IP, DHCP, routers, gateways, subnets, etc.).Knowledge of Linux internals, Linux / Unix troubleshooting skills.Familiarity with host virtualization technologies (KVM, containers, Docker, etc.).Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations).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.