Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle

Location: Redwood City, CA or Seattle, WA

Posted: 7/2020

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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 world’s 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 customer’s business critical applications.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building a next generation cloud platform that supports the most demanding mission-critical customer requirements, operating at global scale to provide a secure, distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.

Our mission is to provide our customers with best in class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Flow is a fully managed big data service that lets you run Apache Spark applications with no infrastructure to deploy or manage. It lets you deliver big data and AI applications faster because you can focus on your applications without getting distracted by operations.

https://www.oracle.com/big-data/data-flow/

We are looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in many areas – such as distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, specialized high-performance hardware and highly available services. If this is you, at OCI Data Flow is an opportunity to design and build our innovative new services and 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. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the engineering delivery of a service or product.
• Work closely with architects, principals, product and program managers to deliver product features on time and with high quality.
• Drive engineering efforts and provide direction other members of the team.
• Proactively identify and resolve risks and issues that may dent team’s ability to execute.
• Ability to integrate various datasets across disparate data sources
• Offer high performance compute infrastructure with the appropriate compute capabilities to easily process, analyze and visualize all data under management
• Use of ML and AI as an integrated part of the cloud services to serve thousands of customers while maintaining a reasonable spend

Minimum Qualifications

Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages: English

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field (MS preferred)
• 8+ years of experience delivering and operating cloud services or highly distributed business software.
• Strong knowledge of Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, etc
• Development experience using Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Docker and Containers
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.

Detailed Description and Job Requirements

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.

Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.