Senior Software Developer

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.

We are forming a new Infrastructure Delivery Engineering org at OCI. The OCI Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team will be responsible for building services and tools to accelerate the process by which OCI grows its compute and network capacity. The service will address all aspects of the Data Center and its Physical Assets lifecycle from planning and design, to delivery and, eventually, decommissioning enabling OCI to continue to grow its footprint in both existing regions and to entirely new regions. Our goal is scale up the process to be able to meet high capacity demands from our large and hyperscale customers.

We are looking for experienced senior software engineers who are ready to tackle new challenges in designing, implementing and maintaining highly available and scalable services for managing physical assets throughout their lifecycle.

From a technology perspective, this is a greenfield development environment with a huge amount of autonomy, allowing us to build and innovate freely while integrating with existing systems through well-established contracts.

About You:

• You are a senior cloud engineer with experience of contributing to the delivery of high-scale, high-impact solutions

• You are obsessed with the customer, always exceeding expectations

• You have excellent communication skills. You can clearly explain technical concepts

• You are a disciplined engineer who understands the importance of high standards, never satisfied with mediocrity and constantly striving for excellence

• You are comfortable with ambiguity in a chaotic and fluid environment

• You are passionate about technology and are not afraid to defend your opinions or position with peers/superiors

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

• 4+ years of software development experience with 2+ years of experience shipping scalable, cloud-native distributed systems.

• Proficient at high-level programming languages, preferably Go and Java. Good knowledge of scripting languages such as Python.

• Ability to work with a team to deliver products from the ground up going through a complete product life cycle

• Experienced with microservice design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols along with developing highly reliable services.

• Understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems.

• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment

• Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms)

• Experience with production operations and best practices for putting quality code in production, going on-call and troubleshooting issues when they arise

• Able to communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)

Preferred Qualifications

• MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science

• Experience in a fast-paced environment

• Experience building control plane/data plane solutions for cloud native companies

• Experience in diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving performance issues in complex environments

• Understanding of physical asset lifecycle within a cloud-scale datacenter

• Experience working with Data Center Infrastructure Management systems and tools.

• Experience working on Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) languages, preferably Terraform.

• Experience with components of modern infrastructure like service discovery, secret storage, containerization, software-defined networking, etc.

Career Level - IC3