Principal Java Software Developer Engineer

The Team

The Database cloud service 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. Oracle 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. For this position the qualified engineer will solve complex problems related to the infrastructure of our cloud services to resolve problem and recover services including design, development and deployment of a platform to automate standard operating procedures to improve availability, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle Database cloud services.  

Skills:

At least BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

• Experience with production environment at high scale with emphasis on availability, latency and healthy customer experience
• Very strong analytical skills to identify problems and its root cause
• Systematic problem solving approach, combined with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Very Good understanding of operating large scale distributed systems
• Solid software development skill using Java.
• Experience with troubleshooting complex issues on existing Java codebase.
• Good communications skills, ability to own and lead software design and development
• Experience in Building and handling Linux OS systems with good understanding how the Linux kernel works (IO, Network, etc.)
• Experience in Building and handling Virtualized systems (KVM, OVM, Containers/Docker) and ability to read and understand source code strongly preferred

Nice To Have:

• Experience with Exadata Database Machine Infrastructure desirable
• Experience with Shell, Python Scripting
• Experience with public clouds such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Azure or GCP strongly preferred
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices, CICD tools and Agile software development methodologies preferred
• Participate in the design, architecture and operation of large-scale Distributed Database cloud service features.
• Responsible for the design and develop of automation and automation framework, with focus on service, security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
• Participate in research, prototyping (proof of concept) and development of different aspect of Oracle Database Cloud service.
• Define and develop monitoring infrastructure criteria for Oracle Database Cloud service.
• Solve complex and difficult problems and build automation to prevent problem recurrence and quickly diagnose/mitigate similar issues.
• Participate in software performance analysis and system tuning.

Career Level - IC4

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