Senior Software Developer

Seeking a strong Senior Software Engineer to help build the Oracle Cloud Observability Platform. The ideal candidate possesses robust distributed systems skills, understands networking and OS fundamentals.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team builds and manages a suite of large-scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant environment. OCI is committed to providing top-tier cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the worlds biggest challenges.

The Observability organization within OCI is on a mission to deliver a world-class Integrated Observability and Management platform for our customers. This platform works seamlessly across OCI, other clouds, and on-premises environments to provide a unified view. Our integrated platform combines Logging, Monitoring, Auditing, SIEM, Events, Inventory, and other services. We continuously innovate each of these services to make them feature-rich and integrate them seamlessly to provide meaningful insights into resources and data.

Career Level - IC3

Key Responsibilities:

• Hands-on and top-tier engineer who can design and drive end to end engineering efforts (incld development, test infrastructure, operational excellence)
• Resolve complex technical issues and make design decisions to meet the critical requirements of this multi-OS/multi-platform scalable, highly available, secure multi-tenant enablement of services in cloud.
• Mentor and guide junior members in the team on the technological front.
• Work closely with all the team members including the Other technical Leads, Director, Engineering manager, architects, product, and program managers to deliver product features on time and with high quality.
• Proactively identify and resolve risks and issues that may dent the team s ability to implement.
• Work with external (application) teams integration with the product and help guide the integration.
• Understand various Cloud technologies in Oracle to help evolve the cloud provisioning and enablement process on a continuous basis.

Must-have Skills

• BS/MS degree or equivalent in related technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience with 5+ years of overall experience along with exposure to at least 1 cloud service provider (AWS/OCI/Azure/GCP etc.) .
• Experience in building and designing microservices and/or cloud native applications.
• Being a problem solver with strong can-do attitude and ability to think on the go would be critical for success on this role.
• Strong fundamentals on OS, networks, distributed systems, designing fault tolerant and high available systems.
• Strong on at least one of the modern programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Python, C#) along with containers experiences (likes of Docker/Kubernetes). Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Must be detail-oriented (critical and conscientious eye for detail), task-driven and have excellent communication skills.
• Be organized and goal-focused, ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment with minimal direction. Strong, creative problem-solving skills and ability to abstract and share details to create substantial articulation.

Preferred Skills or Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience with Architectural patterns for High Availability, Performance, Scale Out architecture, Disaster Recovery, Security Architecture Knowledge of cloud-based architectures, deployment and operational aspects of cloud set up is a plus.
• Prior experience/knowledge on multi-OS/multi-platform products would be a significant plus.
• Experience in implementing container monitoring tools like Prometheus/Grafana, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab etc.), using/creating build tools (Gradle, Ant, Maven, or similar)