Senior Principal Software Development Engineer - OCI

About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of substantial 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.

Role Overview

We are looking for an engineering lead/architect with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You've operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You have the ability to drive projects and tasks independently as well as provide technical leadership for development teams. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances but have to abide by compliance and regulations. The ideal candidate will be technically strong and get a lot done – you've worked on services that are highly available, scalable, and redundant. You understand that simple systems are easier to operate and troubleshoot. 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 properly to get the right data. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of being proactive with your teammates. You proactively find anomalies in graphs that didn't trip any alarms and root cause problems before they become real problems. The person in this role will get a lot done on a daily basis, drive tactical execution of features and projects, and own feature design.

As a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer - OCI on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace team, you will set the technical direction and drive successful business outcomes for the marketplace platform. You will be a technical lead on a team of software engineers working to design, build, grow and operate our services.

The Marketplace team is responsible for building the services where our customers will go to purchase pre-configured software installations on the platform of their choice. The challenges here are across the entire stack, from back-end distributed services operating at cloud scale, to e-commerce transactions, to the actual web apps that users interact with. This is the perfect role for someone experienced in designing complex software systems, writing code across an entire stack, driving operations excellence, mentoring engineers especially in a start-up style environment.

Responsibilities

• Leading system design of major features and services.
• Mentoring other engineers.
• Collaborating with product managers and leadership.
• Writing high quality code at a high rate of speed.
• Improving the extent of our code coverage and development processes.
• Automating testing and deployments.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 8-10+ years of full stack software development, design, implementation and operation of distributed services.
• Experience driving architecture & functional reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers through the entire launch process.
• Hands-on experience building and operating entire systems and services.
• Strong product development experience in Java, Python, Golang, JavaScript.
• Expert in REST API design and designing multi-tenant systems.
• Working familiarity with browser UIs, TCP/IP, HTTP and standard network architectures.
• Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
• Experience providing technical leadership.
• Ability to implement or lead multiple key-projects in parallel.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.

Key skills/competency

• Distributed Systems
• Technical Leadership
• Software Architecture
• Cloud Services
• Operational Excellence
• Full-Stack Development
• Mentoring
• E-commerce Platforms
• REST API Design
• Automation