Principal Member of Technical Staff- OCI

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
• You are passionate about technology and are not afraid to defend your opinions or position with peers/superiors

Minimum 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)

Preferred Qualifications

• MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science
• Experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience building control plane/data plane solutions for cloud native companies
• Experience in diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving performance issues in complex environments
• Understanding of physical asset lifecycle within a cloud-scale datacenter
• Experience working with Data Center Infrastructure Management systems and tools.
• Experience working on Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) languages, preferably Terraform.

Career Level - IC4

• 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.