Job Description

Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture to drive analytics across the different cloud resources created via the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. Assemble large datasets to facilitate a variety of analyses to derive insights from data pertaining to their OCI resources to solve various inventory, operations, security, and FinOps use cases. Identify, design, and implement OCI resource inventory by implementing a data pipeline, optimizing data delivery, and designing infrastructure for greater scalability. 

Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using Java, SQL, and Oracle technologies. Work with the different OCI teams to assist with data-related technical issues and their data infrastructure needs. Create tools and services for analytics, allowing customers to build and optimize analyses that provide insights on resource usage and relationships. Collaborate closely with partners in design and product management to learn complex domains, assess needs, and be a technical advocate for enabling the right infrastructure to answer the the right questions.

Responsibilities

Principal Member of Technical Staff - Observability and Developer Lifecycle, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Cloud Engineering)

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. 

What is Observability and Developer Lifecycle Group at OCI?

The Observability organization at Oracle's Cloud is building new services from scratch that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. In the observability space, we are addressing complex, large scale and connected event platforms that manifests as the following services - Logging, Monitoring and Event Correlation, CMDB services. These services are cornerstones of the DevOps capabilities offered by OCI and offer a wide variety of technical problems to be solved and customer focused innovations to be created.

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Who are we looking for?

We are looking for engineers with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You’ve operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You work on most projects and tasks independently. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances, but have to abide by compliance and regulations.

The ideal candidate will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

What are the biggest challenges for the team?

The team is building a brand new service.The dynamic and fast growth of the business is driving us to build brand new innovative technologies. We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution.

We need engineers who can build services that can reliably protect our customer cloud environment. We need engineers who can figure out how we can keep up our solution in a fast pace to securely protect our customers. We need engineers who can build services that enable us to offer even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Cloud.

Required Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of total experience in software development
• Demonstrated ability to write great code using Java, GoLang, C#, or similar OO languages
• Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle
• Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure
• Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one livesite servicing
• Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive
• Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market-leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) languages, preferably Terraform
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL)
• Experience with Kafka, Apache Spark, Lucene and other big data technologies

Required Skills

Cloud Environment

Design Patterns

DevOps

Distributed Systems

Java (Programming Language)

Microservices

Multi-Threaded

Object Oriented Design