Principal Software Engineer - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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We are seeking an experienced software engineer who enjoys designing and building complex, highly technical products and services in the Cloud from ground up. As a member of the OCI Reliability team, you will help us define & deliver the future of services used daily by both customers and internal teams.

Organization and Team

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the next-generation cloud platform that delivers the most powerful compute and networking performance, with a comprehensive portfolio of services, and the most flexible and cost-effective pricing options for customers. OCI is built from the ground up to meet the needs of mission-critical applications, enterprise-grade security, and unparalleled availability and scalability. OCI is already trusted by thousands of customers across industries and regions to run their most demanding workloads in the cloud, and Oracle is aggressively investing in OCI to provide the broadest, most comprehensive and the most reliable cloud in the industry.

The OCI Reliability team is a group of passionate and hard-working engineers who are dedicated to ensuring the highest level of availability and reliability for OCI services and customers. We are building new technologies that automate the detection, diagnosis, and recovery of operational events for OCI global distributed cloud services. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives!

Job Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced hands-on software developer who enjoys building complex, highly technical products and services in the Cloud from ground up. As a member of the OCI Reliability team, you will help us define the future of services used daily by both customers and internal teams.

• Work with OCI product leaders to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Design, develop and troubleshoot scalable, operationally focused, customer-facing cloud services.
• Automate common tasks to enable continuous delivery and ensure continuous availability with minimal human overhead.
• Drive performant, scalable, and forward-thinking solutions to completion on time.
• Maintain both development and production infrastructure as part of a customer-focused engineering culture with operational excellence.
• Provide technical guidance and constructive feedback to leadership, team members, and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to product roadmaps by identifying areas of need and engaging with stakeholders to scope work.
• Mentor and coach junior members in the team.
• Raise the bar for engineering quality and best practices.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in the software industry working on architecture, system and software design, development and delivery of highly scalable products and services.
• Bachelor's Degree or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent education.
• In-depth understanding of the entire product development lifecycle including writing technical specification, assisting to make product impacting decisions, designing world-class services, developing and reviewing code, driving DevOps, managing releases and operations.
• Ability to identify opportunities for innovation, drive to be on top of tech-debt, plan for continuous improvements in technology and operations and maintain a solid security posture.
• Strong verbal and written communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
• Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments. Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Strong experience in either back-end development with a JVM based (or equivalent) language or front-end development with JavaScript/typescript is required.
• Experience in both backend and front end development is highly desired but is not required.
• Strong experience in microservice-based architectures, distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases, REST APIs and Cloud technologies.
• Good grip over CI/CD process and tools such as Git, JIRA, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, etc.
• Previous experience of using Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS) is required.
• Previous experience with system monitoring, automation and incident management tools is preferable.
• Must be eligible to work in Australia without sponsorship