Oracle: Principal Software Developer, Oracle Cloud

Job Description

Are you someone who is passionate about creating software that pushes the boundaries of technology? Do you want to be a part of an elite development team that will have a significant impact on cloud computing at Oracle? As a Principal Software Developer with the High Availability Systems team, you have the opportunity to architect the next generation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions aimed at providing comprehensive recovery from any kind of server, software, storage, and data center outages. Our solutions address all known technical limitations of software architectures. The requirements are driven by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure which is one of the most innovative and fastest growing business segments at Oracle.

This team has a unique opportunity to create software architectures that fundamentally changes the way businesses innovate, work and adopt technology. Unlike traditional clouds that offer bare-bones virtual Linux machines, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the entire Oracle Product stack: applications, middleware, database, servers, and storage - across multiple data centers worldwide. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure hosts business-critical applications that must withstand all outages and still scale to service customers worldwide. Oracle leverages hardware and software to remove the limitations of technology and creates fully integrated, agile, intelligent business applications across social, mobile, cloud and big data technologies. The High Availability Systems team (MAA, Maximum Availability Architecture Group) is leading these key initiatives at Oracle.

If you are a talented and motivated software engineer/architect with ideas and interests on how to smartly build resiliency and disaster recovery capabilities for the new generation of public cloud services, this is a perfect opportunity for you.

The ideal candidate will exhibit strong technical skills and experience in several of the following areas. Demonstration of clear expertise in some key areas is critical to succeed in this role

• Excellent Java, cloud native programming and problem-solving skills
• Experience with cloud native microservices architectures is a plus
• Around 5-15 years of solid industry experience in software development
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems in cloud across the breadth of technical stack (Compute, Networking, Storage, Containers, Web tier, Middle tier, RDBMS, Virtualization)
• Strong experience or interest in High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery, Cloning, Clustering, Storage Replication technologies, Enterprise Deployments, Infrastructure Manageability and designing complex systems addressing consistency and availability in highly distributed deployments
• Hands on experience with Unix/Linux
• Strong software engineering, debugging and analytical skills
• Experience in any of the following scripting languages (Python, Perl, Shell)
• Excellent communication skills and experience in working with cross functional teams
• Prior experience in building enterprise class software products involved in mission critical deployments

Responsibilities

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 - $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

About Us

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