Principal Member Technical Staff

Oracle Tuxedo, part of the Oracle Database organization, is the #1 application server platform for developing and deploying mission-critical applications written in C, C++, COBOL, and Java. These applications continue to be the backbone of hundreds of large enterprises across the globe. Oracle Tuxedo also known for its adaptability, is considered an original microservices platform.

We are building a team to work on the next-generation features of Oracle Tuxedo. Our strategy is two-fold: first is to bring advances in infrastructure technology, such as with Kubernetes, Services mesh, etc. to Tuxedo applications, and second, leverage decades of investment in Tuxedo to bring to market a new product microservices making it easier to develop modern, microservices architecture-based applications.

If you are passionate about the prospects working on an application development platform serving customers across the globe, who rely on the platform for their mission-critical business applications, we would like to hear from you.

Career Level - IC4

Principal Member of Technical Staff - Oracle Tuxedo

You will work in a distributed, outstanding product development team with the opportunity to innovate at every turn and will have exposure to the full product development lifecycle, from conception to release. Your tasks will include:

• Investigate new features/technical solutions for the platform based on requirements provided by product managers. Create functional specs and high-level design specs, through an iterative process that might include several reviews/revisions and frequent interactions with product managers and the technical leadership team.
• Assess various options to solve a given problem and then, propose recommendations and a project plan to deliver the solution.
• Implement the solution following the best practices and development processes currently in place. Fix bugs in newly developed code as reported by the quality assurance team.
• Perform necessary tasks to release new features to customers in a new version of the platform.
• Resolve customer-reported issues for the product family by either providing a workaround or a code fix/patch in a timely manner.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software design and development experience.
• Solid experience in developing features for highly complex, distributed systems.
• Experience developing on Unix systems, preferably Linux.
• Solid experience using C/C++. Able to demonstrate experience with multiple programming languages, such as Java and/or GO and scripting languages like node.js, python, shell, etc.
• Familiarity with Microservices technologies, especially Kubernetes, Service mesh (Istio, etc.), containerization, etc.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience working in highly distributed team settings.
• Sense of ownership, passion to build, support and maintain quality products for massive scale in collaborative, agile environment and excitement to learn.
• BS in Computer Science.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS in Computer Science
• Solid experience using Linux and System V IPCs.
• Experience developing on Windows.
• Experience with distributed transaction processing systems.
• Understanding of distributed transaction protocols including XA, TCC and/or LRA.
• Solid understanding of and experience with Microservices technologies based on Kubernetes, Docker, Service Mesh etc.