Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world.


Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide.


OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud,edge computing, and more.


At OCI platform organization, our mission is to provide core platform services for OCI cloud and customers. We're embarking


on ambitious new initiative to scale our tier-0 services for 10x growth . We are looking for seasoned and talented developers to join platform dataplane scalability team within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This team is working on re-architecture critical platform data planes


for next phase of OCI growth. We need you to challenge existing assumptions and boundaries, bring your expertise in highly performant, reliable software engineering and help us bring OCI to the next level.





These are exciting times, and our team is still new and growing. This is your opportunity to build ambitious new initiatives with broad impact. We're looking for engineers who are self-motivated, passionate about solving complex software challenges, and able to dive deep into systems to understand and improve them. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.


Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, defining and building platform data planes. You will collaborate across OCI to build next gen platform data planes

Basic Qualifications

BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience


6+ years of full-time professional experience in software development


Demonstrated ability to write great code using Java, GoLang, or similar languages


Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle


Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure


Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one livesite servicing


Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive


Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market-leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands

Preferred Qualifications

Experience as technical lead on a large-scale cloud service


10+ years of full-time professional experience in software development


Hands-on experience developing and maintaining services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)


Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) languages, preferably Terraform


Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL)


Strong knowledge of Computer Networking (OSI layers, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, Routers, Gateways, Subnets, etc.)


Strong knowledge of building distributed systems


Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)


Experience with hiring, mentorship and raising the talent bar across the organization