Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Engineer in this space, you will have ownership of key technical components and services. You will drive the engineering team and lead the development of cloud services that enable streaming providers to move their workloads to OCI. These services include playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery, streaming analytics, and flexible billing & cost analytics. This is a unique opportunity to build a competitive product from the ground up and extend OCI’s reach into new opportunities within the media and entertainment industry. You will collaborate with engineering leaders to shape the path to success, leveraging your experience as a senior team member to influence and drive progress.

We are looking for someone with substantial experience in building, leading, and operating cloud services at a high technical level. Experience in video playback, video encoding technologies, content delivery using CDNs, and live streaming is highly desired. This individual contributor role requires exceptional soft skills alongside technical prowess. Strong communication abilities, leadership, and collaboration are essential. You will mentor engineers, drive complex technical projects, and lead initiatives with confidence and independence.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

• Research in state of the art of specific technical focus areas.
• Cloud service architecture, micro-service design, scalability, observability and availability provisions.
• Design and implementation of services and their component micro-services.
• Collaboration within the engineering team to deliver and operate cloud services that enable streaming providers to shift their workloads to OCI.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry best practices, ensuring compliance and driving innovation within the organization.
• Launching new cloud services and establishing operational excellence.
• Lead implementation to realize and achieve the technical vision of the team.
• Ability to engage with geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Coaching, mentoring, and developing best talent.
• Establishing and stimulating software development standards and processes along with best practices for the entire org.
• Defining OKRs and KPIs to inform decision making and prioritization.

Qualifications

• BS/CS Computer Science or related field and 5+ years software development experience.
• Large/enterprise scale software development and engineering experience, particularly with cloud services and distributed systems.
• Domain knowledge and experience with playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery, streaming analytics, and flexible billing & cost analytics are highly desired.
• Experience as a lead developer in the design, implementation and operation of cloud services.
• Experience collaborating with geo-distributed teams.
• Extensive background and experience in software implementation, code and design review, failure root cause analysis.
• Designing for availability, observability, scalability and recoverability.