Principal Member of Technical Staff- Java- OCI

 Org/Team 



Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a strategic focal point for Oracle, offering comprehensive cloud services across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. OCI is built from the ground up to meet the needs of mission-critical applications, enterprise-grade security, and unparalleled availability and scalability. Thousands of customers across industries and regions already trust OCI to run their most demanding workloads in the cloud, and Oracle is aggressively investing in OCI to provide the broadest, most comprehensive, and most reliable cloud in the industry.

The  OCI Problem Engineering team  is dedicated to building tools and infrastructure to power company-wide reliability and availability programs. You will fit right in if you are passionate about building innovative force-multiplier developer tools at scale. These are exciting times in our space and we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives.



 What Youll Do 

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on technical leader who enjoys designing and building complex, innovative cloud products and services from the ground up. As a technical leader on the OCI Problem Engineering team, you will drive engineering initiatives behind our reliability and availability programs.

Work with OCI product leaders to translate business requirements into technical specifications.

Architect, design, develop and troubleshoot scalable, operationally focused, customer-facing cloud services.

Drive performant, scalable, and forward-thinking solutions to completion on time.

Maintain both development and production infrastructure as part of a customer-focused engineering culture with operational excellence.

Provide technical guidance and constructive feedback to leadership, team members, and other stakeholders.

Contribute to product roadmaps by identifying areas of need and engaging with stakeholders to scope work.

Lead, mentor, and coach junior members of the team.

Raise the bar for engineering quality and best practices.

 Qualifications 

6+ years of experience in the software industry with 3+ years being a senior developer/technical leader working on architecture, system and software design, development and delivery of highly scalable products and services.

Practical experience in design, implementation, and production deployment of distributed systems using microservices architecture and APIs using common frameworks like Spring Boot (Java), etc.

Practical experience working in a cloud environment:Oracle Cloud (OCI), AWS, GCP, Azure, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

In-depth understanding of the entire product development lifecycle, including liaising with product management, writing technical specifications, making product-impacting decisions, architecting and designing world-class services, developing and reviewing code, driving DevOps, managing releases and operations.

Ability to identify opportunities for innovation, drive to be on top of tech-debt, plan for continuous improvements in technology and operations and maintain a solid security posture.

Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments. Ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Ability to create, drive and evangelize cross-team processes and achieve org-wide impact.

Good grip over CI/CD process and tools such as GitLab, JIRA, TeamCity/Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, etc.

Web development (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, React) as part of Full Stack development experience is preferable.

Previous experience with system monitoring, automation and incident management tools is preferable.

Previous experience of working in cloud computing is highly desirable.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities 

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.

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