Oracle Corporation

Senior Principal Software Developer

Oracle Corporation$96K — $251K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • Over 10 years delivering large-scale, mission-critical cloud services
  • Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Python, Java), and DevOps & automation
  • Strong team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Comfortable with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies and improve cross-team processes
  • Demonstrated mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and delivery of global-scale cloud services from inception to production
  • Engineer new container runtimes and distributed frameworks for high-availability workloads
  • Develop high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions
  • Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools
  • Mentor senior engineers and promote cross-team alignment for mission-critical services
  • Provide technical direction and simplify complexity across product, engineering, and operational teams
  • Collaborate with executive leadership to drive long-term strategic initiatives

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Short and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance and AD&D
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
  • 401(k) Savings Plan with company matching
  • Flexible vacation policy and accrued vacation benefits
  • Paid sick leave with rollover options
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Financial planning services and group legal assistance
  • Voluntary benefits including auto and pet insurance
Full Job Description
Job Description

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more.
As are part of Technical Strategy Oversight team (TSO) within OCI, our mission is to maximize customer choice and transparency while delivering high-value cloud solutions. We are at the strategic center of OCI's most ambitious projects-architecting and delivering next-generation platforms and frameworks to empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services.

What You'll Be Building and Leading
  • End-to-End Solutions: Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.
  • Foundational Frameworks: Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI's highest-availability and most demanding workloads.
  • Performance at Scale: Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.
  • Strategic Innovation: Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps.

Why Join Us?
  • Industry Impact: Shape the direction and standards of the global public cloud by leading initiatives with large-scale customer and organizational impact.
  • Personal Growth: Accelerate your career at the intersection of technical and strategic leadership, with opportunities to influence OCI's top priorities and outcomes.
  • Collaborative Leadership: Partner with and mentor diverse, world-class engineering teams while enjoying autonomy and strong executive support.
  • Culture of Excellence: Help foster an inclusive, high-performance workplace where innovators of all backgrounds can thrive, drive change, and deliver excellence.

Responsibilities

We're seeking visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud. As a recognized expert, you will deliver Cloud Infrastructure solutions for one of the two new OCI services:
  • Key value store is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service. It delivers fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability, automatically handling infrastructure management, capacity provisioning, security, and backups. It is designed to support high-volume, real-time workloads, consistently providing single-digit millisecond latency for both reads and writes, regardless of scale.
  • A journaling service that reliably and efficiently records sequential, immutable logs (journal entries) of operations or transactions, with architecture designed to support increases in workload (scalability), while consistently delivering very fast response times for both recording and retrieving journal entries (low latency).

You will mentor senior engineers, drive strategy, and be responsible for cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services. You are respected for providing technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the organization. Your influence reaches across product, engineering, and operational teams, and you routinely collaborate with executive leadership to set and realize long-term strategy.

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.

Responsibilities

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • More than 10 years' of experience delivering distributed, mission-critical cloud services at large scale
  • Cloud platform expertise (AWS, Azure, GCP), programming (Python, Java), DevOps & automation, networking, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), security, virtualization, database management, and understanding concepts like Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Strong team player 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
  • Demonstrates strong mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing teams while aligning engineers with shared objectives


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Oracle Dyn Global Business Unit is a pioneer in managed DNS and a leader in cloud-based infrastructure that connects users with digital content and experiences across a global internet. Dyn's solution is powered by a global network that drives 40 billion traffic optimization decisions daily for more than 3,500 enterprise customers, including preeminent digital brands such as Netflix, Twitter, Linkedin and CNBC. Adding Dyn's best-in-class DNS and email services extend the Oracle cloud computing platform and provides enterprise customers with a one-stop shop for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). On January 31, 2017 Oracle completed the acquisition of Dyn, which now operates as an Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) global business unit (GBU).

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