Principal Principal 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 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.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities:

• As a Principal Software Engineer on this team, you will be leading the effort in defining, designing, and delivering the platform using latest technologies on OCI.
• You will partner with product team, learn about the existing challenges, and influence the vision and direction.
• You will own the entire software lifecycle - 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 leveraging internal tooling at OCI.
• Our Principal engineers are also the people who can work independently and provide technical leadership to the organization.
• You should have experience developing and operating high-scale services, and an understanding of how to make these cloud-scale services resilient.
• The ideal candidate will be technically strong and productive; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements.
• You understand operational excellence and know-how to infuse a culture of being proactive within your team.
• You recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data-driven approaches.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of software development experience with 5+ years of experience shipping scalable, cloud-native distributed systems.
• Proficient at high-level programming languages, preferably Go and Java. Good knowledge of scripting languages such as Python.
• Ability to deliver products from the ground up going through a complete product life cycle
• Experienced with microservice design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols along with developing highly reliable services.
• Experience with devising, managing, and extending monitoring solutions for large-scale environments.
• Understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
• Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms)
• 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, going on-call and troubleshoot issues when they arise
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)