Senior Principal Software Engineer

Location: Austin, TX, United States

Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud?

Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure team is building new File Storage Services that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best in class file storage capabilities in conjunction with other compute, storage, networking, database, security offerings. We're looking for hands-on engineers with a passion for solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. Joining Oracle will give you the opportunity to design and build innovative new systems from the ground up and operate services at scale. Engineers at every level can have significant technical and business impact while delivering critical enterprise level features.

You will work as part of a highly collaborative team to build new features/tools for File Storage Service while operating and growing the current service offering. You should understand distributed systems and have a strong knowledge of software architecture. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. Duties and tasks are varied and require independent judgment. You will perform software development tasks associated with developing, debugging, and designing software applications.

We expect this role to be a leadership role, where the candidate will participate in design activities, work with Product management on service definition and establish operational best practices across the organization. We also expect this role to have an impact in new AI/ML service offerings as well as in enhancements to existing storage services.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
• 6+ years' experience developing commercial software in a distributed environment.
• Strong knowledge of Java, Go, Python or C++.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals. Strong understanding of databases, storage, and persistent technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging and performance tuning skills.

 

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Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure team is building new File Storage Services that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best in class file storage capabilities in conjunction with other compute, storage, networking, database, security offerings