Senior Software Developer

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.

Career Level - IC3

At Oracle Fusion Application Organization, we build the future of the SaaS cloud Services for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.
You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really inquisitive, motivated, and a diverse group of people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

We offer unique opportunities for inquisitive, 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.

Fusion Application As A Service (FAaaS) is an exciting new team working on at the intersection of infrastructure and applications where we are demonstrating OCI to transform some of the largest SaaS properties in the industry. We are making the existing Oracle's SaaS portfolios, including the multi-billion-dollar revenue producing applications, become first class Oracle cloud citizens.

To support the vision we are building a platform that manages end-to-end lifecycle, from provisioning to upgrade to terminate; and provides a self-service cloud experience to the customer for our SaaS product by demonstrating the underlying OCI platform and services.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the FAaaS team, you will lead the effort in building distributed, scalable, fault tolerant software systems in support of our business needs and end customers. You will own the entire software lifecycle – design, development, testing, CI/CD and production operations. You must balance between product feature development and production operational concerns like writing run books, ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and events demonstrating a plethora of internal tooling at OCI.

From a technology perspective, this is a greenfield development environment with a huge amount of autonomy, leaving us free to build and innovate without being encumbered by legacy products and services.

About You
    •    You are an experienced cloud engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-scale, high-impact solutions
    •    You are obsessed with the customer, always exceeding expectations
    •    You have excellent communication skills. You can clearly explain complex technical concepts
    •    You are a disciplined engineer who understands the importance of high standards, never satisfied with mediocrity and constantly striving for excellence
    •    You are comfortable with ambiguity in a chaotic and fluid environment
    •    You are passionate about technology and are not afraid to defend your opinions or position with peers/superiors

Minimum Qualifications
    •    4+ years of experience shipping scalable, cloud native distributed systems
    •    BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
    •    Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
    •    Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms)
    •    Proficient in at Java/C++, Python and shell scripting tools
    •    Experience with container orchestration like Kubernetes/Docker Swarm/Mesos, experience working on Helm Charts, etc.
    •    Strong working experience on GitHub/Bitbucket, TeamCity/Hudson, Maven/Gradle
    •    You are experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols
    •    Experience with components of modern infrastructure like service discovery, secret storage, containerization, software-defined networking, etc.
    •    Experience with production operations and best practices for putting quality code in production and troubleshoot issues when they arise
    •    Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)

Preferred Qualifications
    •    MS in Computer Science
    •    Experience in a fast-paced start-up environment
    •    Experience building control plane/data plane solutions for cloud native companies
    •    Experience in diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving performance issues in complex environments
    •    Deep understanding of Unix-like operating systems
    •    Production experience with Cloud and ML technologies
    •    Data science and machine learning knowledge would be helpful but not required

Detailed Description and Job Requirements
As a member of this emerging software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. You will provide technical leadership to other software developers including mentoring, code reviews, presentations and more. As with any new product delivery, duties and tasks will vary and changes in priority are the norm.
 
Our vision is to provide an immersive self-service experience to our customer on Oracle Cloud. Aggressive as it might sound, our growth journey is fueled by highly energetic, technology savvy engineers like YOU who are looking to grow with us to meet the demands of building a powerful next-generation platform. Are you ready to do something big?

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