Job Title:Principal Software Development Engineer (OCI)
Job Location:REMOTE or FLEX/HYBRID but must be living in PST Time Zone in U.S. (collaborating with Australia Team)
Job Description
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the next-generation cloud platform that delivers the most powerful compute and networking performance, with a comprehensive portfolio of services, and the most flexible and cost-effective pricing options for customers. OCI is built from the ground up to meet the needs of mission-critical applications, enterprise-grade security, and unparalleled availability and scalability. OCI is already trusted by thousands of customers across industries and regions to run their most demanding workloads in the cloud, and Oracle is aggressively investing in OCI to provide the broadest, most comprehensive and the most reliable cloud in the industry.
The OCI Reliability team is a group of passionate and hard-working engineers who are dedicated to ensuring the highest level of availability and reliability for OCI services and customers. We are building new technologies that automate the detection, diagnosis, and recovery of operational events for OCI global distributed cloud services. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on daring new initiatives!
We are seeking an experienced hands-on software developer who enjoys building complex, highly technical products and services in the Cloud from ground up. As a member of the OCI Reliability team, you will help us define the future of services used daily by both customers and internal teams.
Job Responsibilities
- Work with OCI product leaders to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Design, develop and troubleshoot scalable, operationally focused, customer-facing cloud services.
- Automate common tasks to enable continuous delivery and ensure continuous availability with minimal human overhead.
- Drive performant, scalable, and forward-thinking solutions to completion on time.
- Maintain both development and production infrastructure as part of a customer-focused engineering culture with operational excellence.
- Provide technical guidance and constructive feedback to leadership, team members, and other stakeholders.
- Contribute to product roadmaps by identifying areas of need and engaging with stakeholders to scope work.
- Mentor and coach junior members in the team.
- Raise the bar for engineering quality and best practices.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in the software industry working on architecture, system and software design, development and delivery of highly scalable products and services.
- Bachelor's Degree or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent education.
- In-depth understanding of the entire product development lifecycle including writing technical specification, assisting to make product impacting decisions, designing world-class services, developing and reviewing code, driving DevOps, leading releases and operations.
- Ability to identify opportunities for innovation, aim to be on top of tech-debt, plan for continuous improvements in technology and operations and maintain a solid security posture.
- Strong verbal and written communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
- Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments. Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Strong back-end development experience in Java or other similar modern programming language.
- Strong experience in microservice-based architectures, distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases, REST APIs and Cloud technologies.
- Good grip over CI/CD process and tools such as GitLab, JIRA, TeamCity/Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, etc.
- Previous experience of using Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS) is highly required.
- Experience with front-end / full-stack development is desired but is not required.
- Previous experience with system monitoring, automation and incident management tools is preferable.
