Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team provides 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) VNICaaS Team

Are you interested in building a large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best-in-class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/networking/

We’re looking for a hands-on Principal Software Engineer with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle you can design and build innovative new 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.

As a member of our team, you will own and lead portions of software architecture and development for components of our service. You should be a rock solid coder, a systems generalist, able to architect broad systems interactions, while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower-level system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Responsibilities

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is building a state of the art elastic cloud with data centers in regions around the world. For Cloud Infrastructure, network is one of the critical and foundational piece. Being empowered with the flexibility, reliability and scalability of Virtual Networking, Cloud Applications and Cloud Platform enables Oracle’s Enterprise customers to run their mission critical workload seamlessly on OCI. Within OCI, Virtual Networking team is responsible for delivering innovative networks with high performance characteristics that exceed those of our competitors.

Virtual Networking team delivers Network-as-a-Service that handle planning, provisioning, life cycle management and security of our customers' network infrastructure. We are shaping the management of network infrastructure by providing the flexibility and simplicity of a virtual network but with the manageability and control of a software defined network (SDN).

Description of the Role: What would the candidate work on if s/he joined your team?

OCI is building cutting edge foundational infrastructure service to redefine cloud connectivity and productivity. We have openings and call for passionate engineers in all relevant areas: Control Plane, Data Plane for connectivity and distributed systems, and Linux daemon development .

The day-to-day job on the team involves design and development of highly available, scalable and fault tolerant micro-services. As a core member of the team, you will get a chance to be part of the entire product lifecycle ranging from conceptualization -> product -> design -> development -> launch -> operational maturity for your service.

We are looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems related to high-availability and scalability. This is an opportunity to build innovative solutions for our customers from the ground up. These are exciting times and our team is still growing fast, working on ambitious new initiatives. We are looking for adaptable, self-motivated engineers with ability to learn quickly.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience with systems/application development

• 5+ years of experience with distributed systems OR backend development

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related engineering fields

• Proficient with data structures, algorithms, operating systems.

• Experience with distributed systems: familiarity with CAP theorem, Consensus, messaging, High Availability etc.

• Specifics for Control Plane dev roles:

• Experience delivering RESTful service applications in Java/python

• Experience with distributed systems: HA, State replication

• Proficient at programming in any two out of C/C++ and Python or Java

• Specifics for Data Plane Connectivity or Distributed Systems dev roles:

• Experience working with various Network Virtualization technologies

• Strong knowledge of Linux networking constructs

• Software-based packet forwarding experience

• Experience working with fast and large scale read/write intensive distributed systems

• Specifics for Data Plane Linux/Windows Applications/Daemons dev roles:

• Experience in building and maintaining Linux daemons, secure connectivity solutions, Linux/container technologies, operating systems, and cloud operations and monitoring

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters / PhD degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields

• Experience providing technical leadership for customer facing features

• Experience with developing fault-tolerant systems

• Experience owning production backend services

• Experience in Infrastructure-as-a-Service

• Experience in building services and applications at Cloud Scale

Qualifications displayed in the job posting

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

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.

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 in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

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