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Oracle Senior Principal Software Development Engineer (OCI) in Albany, New York
Job Description
Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development:
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.
Technical Operations and Support (TOS) Platform Engineering org is an exciting new group focused on the intersection of customer experience and support operations, and are leading the are modernization and standardization of how OCI provides support to its customer. We are looking for software engineers who are ready to tackle new challenges in building a brand new highly available and scalable ticketing platform used for all cloud operations.
As a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer on this Team, you will be leading the effort in defining and designing the architecture of the new product. You will partner with product team, learn about the existing challenges, and influence the vision and direction. Additionally, you will drive exploration and integration of other OCI products, evaluation of technologies and foundational component to be used, as well as working across other organization influencing change where necessary. You will help other leaders in balancing between product feature development and production operational concerns like writing run books, ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and events leveraging a plethora of internal tooling at OCI.
From a technology perspective, this is a greenfield development environment with a huge amount of autonomy, leaving us free to build and innovate without being encumbered by legacy products and services.
Responsibilities
About You :
You are an experienced cloud engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-scale, high-impact solutions
You are obsessed with the customer, always exceeding expectations
You have excellent communication skills. You can clearly explain complex 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:
12+ years of experience shipping scalable, cloud native distributed systems
BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms)
Proficient in at Java/C++, Python and shell scripting tools
Experience with container orchestration like Kubernetes/Docker Swarm/Mesos, experience working on Helm Charts, etc.
Strong working experience on GitHub/Bitbucket, TeamCity/Hudson, Maven/Gradle
You are experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols
Experience with components of modern infrastructure like service discovery, secret storage, containerization, software-defined networking, etc.
Experience with production operations and best practices for putting quality code in production and troubleshoot issues when they arise
Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)
Preferred Qualifications:
MS in Computer Science
Experience in a fast-paced start-up environment
Experience building control plane/data plane solutions for cloud native companies
Experience in diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving performance issues in complex environments
Deep understanding of Unix-like operating systems
Production experience with Cloud and ML technologies
Data science and machine learning knowledge would be helpful but not required
(Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development)
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
US: Hiring Range: from $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
About Us
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Disclaimer:
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