Software Developer

The Java Platform Group is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Software Engineer to join our world class development efforts. Our team is responsible for delivering the Java platform that is used by millions of developers. We are looking for an engineer with a strong technical background, thorough understanding of build, test and development infrastructure to shepherd bug fixes and product feature down the development pipeline.

The Java Platform Group is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Software Engineer to join our world class development efforts. Our team is responsible for delivering the Java platform that is used by millions of developers. We are looking for an engineer with a strong technical background, thorough understanding of build, test and development infrastructure to shepherd bug fixes and product feature down the development pipeline.

In this role, your primary responsibility will be to work with the other members of the Java Platform team on the development of tools that build, deploy, and test Java. In addition, you will work on tools and infrastructure to enable opensource development for the OpenJDK. Your success in this role can be measured by the reduction in time it takes for a bug fix to enter a release, reduction of risk to regression, maintaining high product quality and lowering development overhead and churn. The systems that you will help build, when done properly, will not only benefit Oracle internal developers but will also allow external OpenJDK contributors to submit bug fix and feature enhancements.

- Most of our infra tools are written in Java. Need to be comfortable using Java for development

- Comfortable with developing Webservices in Java

- Expert and hands-on knowledge with these technologies: Linux, Bash, Windows, Ansible, Terraform.

- Building infrastructure, tools and processes for continuously integration: k8s, databases, Artifactory

- Leveraging cloud and farms of virtual environments to scale our build and test infrastructure to support both OpenJDK and Oracle internal Java development: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or AWS or Azure

- SCM maintenance - familiar with code branching, merging, conflict resolution, create and maintain source repositories. git and mercurial and GitHub Enterprise

- familiarity with javascript framework javascript react.js, front end frameworks, node.js

Minimum Job Qualifications

• Successful track record of delivering infrastructure for a large, distributed team

• Ability to solve operational issues through engineering automated solutions