Principal Member of Technical Staff

Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle

We are seeking hands-on engineers with deep expertise and a passion for tackling complex challenges within distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. If you possess these qualities, Oracle offers the opportunity to design and construct innovative new systems from inception. This is an exciting period within our domain; we are experiencing rapid growth, are still in an early stage, and are embarking on ambitious new initiatives. Engineers at every level have the potential for significant technical and business impact.

As a key member of the software engineering division, you will actively contribute to defining and evolving standard practices and procedures. Your responsibilities will include defining and developing software for tasks related to the development, design, and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we are a diverse team of creators and inventors building the future of the cloud for Enterprises. We operate with the agility and mindset of a start-up, combined with the scale and customer-centric focus of the world's leading enterprise software company.

Our values form OCI's foundation and guide our pursuit of excellence. We champion equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are dedicated to the greater good in both our products and our actions. We are committed to continuous learning and embracing opportunities for personal and professional growth. We challenge one another to transcend past achievements and shape our future.

You are a builder here. You will join a team of exceptionally intelligent, motivated, and diverse individuals, receiving the autonomy and support necessary to deliver your best work. Our workplace is dynamic and flexible, fostering a sense of belonging and encouraging individual contributions. If your ambition is to construct large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud, this is the ideal team for you!

Oracle is making aggressive investments in Oracle Cloud to deliver the industry's most comprehensive cloud solutions. Only Oracle provides a complete suite of integrated services, encompassing applications as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service, thereby eliminating the data and business process fragmentation often associated with cloud silos. Infrastructure Services, including Compute, Storage, and Messaging, are a critical component of these offerings. This is your chance to join the dynamic Compute team, which delivers elastic compute capabilities to support any workload in the cloud!

Responsibilities

As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will assume ownership of the software design and development for significant components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. You are expected to be both a proficient coder and a distributed systems generalist, capable of delving deeply into any aspect of the stack and low-level systems, as well as designing broad distributed system interactions. You should prioritize simplicity and scalability, work effectively within a collaborative, agile environment, and be eager to learn.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with distributed systems within large-scale environments.
• Proficient in Java, C, or C++ and experienced with scripting languages such as Python or Perl.
• Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure.
• Experience operating in a mission-critical, tier-one live site servicing environment.
• Possess a systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive.
• Experience designing architectures demonstrating deep technical expertise in one area, or spanning multiple products, to achieve high availability, scalability, market-leading features, and flexibility for future business demands.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical ideas both verbally and in writing (e.g., technical proposals, design specifications, architecture diagrams, and presentations).

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, distributed systems fundamentals, and cloud-native development.
• Working familiarity with operating systems internals, networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP), and standard network architectures.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure is a strong plus.

Key skills/competency

• Distributed Systems
• Virtualized Infrastructure
• Highly Available Services
• Java
• C/C++
• Python
• Large-Scale Environments
• Architecture Design
• Scalability
• Data Structures
• Algorithms