Principal SW Developer

At Oracle Multicloud organization, our mission is to is to maximize the value of customer's

Oracle investment as well as other clouds or on-premises infrastructure and provide highly

distributed, scalable, and resilient multi-cloud solutions for their business needs.

We are looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult

problems in all areas of cloud service software engineering: high scale distributed systems,

virtualized infrastructure, identity, security, observability, and user experience.

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 here. You will be

part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as

support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong

and be encouraged.

Position Overview

You have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production.

You've built and operated high-scale public cloud services and have a deep understanding

of control plane architecture. You work on most projects and tasks independently and

extend your technical expertise to development teams.

In this role, you will enable development teams by driving design of major service

components, working with engineering managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance

to more junior team members. You can go from high level system design, writing

architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on

prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping.

You are technically strong and get a lot done. 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 your service. You understand operational excellence

and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.

Job Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Developer, you will build entire services and act as an expert on

your team. You will be developing high-quality code and tests, mentoring others on your

team and establishing engineering standards, drive design and architecture of your service,

and play a key role in planning, execution and operational readiness. As an engineering

expert, we expect you to raise the bar for the entire engineering organization – whether

through best engineering practices, operational excellence, development process or shared

code contributions.

This role also includes participation in a regular on-call rotation to help ensure service

reliability and rapid response to operational issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the engineering delivery of a service or product.
• Work closely with architects, product and program managers to deliver product

features on time and with high quality.

• Drive engineering efforts and provide direction to other members of the team.

• Collaborate with other product teams.

• Proactively identify and resolve risks and issues that may impact team's ability to

execute.

Qualifications:

• 6 to 10 years distributed service engineering experience in a software development

environment

• Development experience in a modern programming language, such as Java, C++, C#

• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service

components

• Deep understanding of object-oriented design and SDK development, specifically

within a cloud environment

• Experience working closely with architects, product and program managers to

deliver product features on time and with high quality.

• Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed

systems fundamentals.

• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard

network architectures.

• Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed

persistence technologies.

• Good understanding of Linux or desire to learn

• Demonstrable technical expertise and mentorship skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field (MS preferred)

• Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS,

Azure, GCP)

• Experience driving security reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with

Product Managers from inception through launch

• Experience and understanding of multi-AD/AZ and regional data centers

• Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and

deployment schedules

• Expertise in applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques to

develop security solutions

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