Software Developer

***This position is based in Nashville

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

The OCI Dataservices Engineering is responsible for a critical database service used by other public OCI services.

We are looking for a Principal software engineer who is ready to tackle new challenges in designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available and scalable services for managing this key database service. Help us build automation tools for managing our large and fast-growing fleet of database service that underpins other OCI services. Help us build the bedrock for the Enterprise Class Cloud of the future!

Responsibilities :

About You :

• You are a lead cloud engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-scale, high-impact solutions
• You are obsessed with the customer, always exceeding expectations
• You have excellent communication skills. You can drive complex technical concepts
• You are a disciplined engineer who understands the importance of high standards, never satisfied with mediocrity and constantly striving for excellence
• You are comfortable with ambiguity in a chaotic and fluid environment
• You are passionate about technology and are not afraid to defend your opinions or position with peers/superiors

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment, and lead peers and Jr/Sr Engineers
• Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms)
• Proficient in Java or Python
• Proficient in Oracle Database Engineering
• You are experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols
• Experience with production operations and best practices for putting quality code in production and troubleshoot issues when they arise
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience building control plane/data plane solutions for cloud native companies
• Experience in diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving performance issues in complex environments