Software Developer

The Virtual Networking Gateways team is looking for engineers with willingness and ability to deep dive into any part of the networking stack. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact. Join our team and help us build state-of-the-art Virtual Networking solutions.

Why join OCI Networking?

The OCI Networking organisation has a culture of collaboration. We work together and help each other out, and make sure that onboarding and ramp-up experience is a great one. We focus on excellent customer experience, scalable architecture, manageable operations, and minimal technical debt, with a strong focus on reasonable on-call and a good work/life balance.

We are a team that builds and maintains the OCI Software Defined Network (SDN) stack. Currently, we are looking for engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in high-availability, virtualised networks, and network packet processing. These are exciting times, and our team is undergoing rapid growth while working on many new ambitious initiatives.

As a Member of Technical Staff on the Data plane team, you will:

• Design and develop major core components of Oracle’s Virtual Cloud Network.
• Be responsible for delivering high-speed packet processing architectures and other distributed systems that provide networking features such as TCP/UDP packet processing, access controls, metrics and monitoring dashboards.
• Participate in the entire software lifecycle – development, testing, CI and production operation
• Balance between product feature development and production operational concerns like writing run books, ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and events
• Leverage plethora of internal tooling at OCI to develop, build, deploy and troubleshoot software
Participate in on-call for the service

Qualifications

You are a programmer with networking experience. You value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and are excited to learn.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters / PhD degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields
• 1+ years of experience with systems/application development
• Proficient with data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• Software-based packet forwarding experience, Core packet processing (CPP)
• Familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures
• Familiarity with High Availability(HA), messaging, State replication
• Proficient at programming in C/C++, Python, GoLang, Solid understanding of Linux networking constructs
• Experience working with various Network Virtualisation technologies
Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with packet processing libraries like dpdk
• Experience designing and developing for scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability
• Experience with developing fault-tolerant systems
• Experience in Infrastructure-as-a-Service