Oracle Hiring for Consulting Member of Technical Staff – OCI Big Data Service (BDS) at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

Full Job DescriptionAbout OCI & Cloud Platform

Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team (OCI) is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at a high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best-in-class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

At Oracle, you can help, shape, design, and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space – we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. Engineers at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

Big Data Service Team @ OCI

OCI is leading the transformation to cloud-native Big Data technologies in our hyper-scale, multi-tenant cloud, deployed in more than 20 regions worldwide. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud services that meet the needs of our customers, who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

The Big Data Service team’s charter is to offer a managed, cloud-native Big Data Service focused on large-scale data processing and analytics on unstructured data stored in data lakes and managing the data in data lakes. The service work scope encompasses good integration with OCI’s native infrastructure (security, cloud, storage, etc.) and deep integration with other relevant cloud-native services in OCI (like Oracle Kubernetes, Data Catalog, ADW, etc.). It includes doing cloud-native ways of doing service level patching & upgrades and maintaining high availability of the service in the face of random failures & planned downtimes in the underlying infrastructure (e.g., for things like patching the Linux kernels to take care of a security vulnerability).

We are interested in senior engineers with expertise and passion for solving difficult problems in distributed systems and highly available services.

Desired Skills and Experience

12+ years of experience in software development, distributed systems, cloud, high scale data systems.
Deep understanding of how distributed resilient data-intensive systems are built and deployed.
Experience delivering and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
Experience with larger projects (large codebases)
Experience with open-source software in the Big Data ecosystem
Experience at an organization with strong operational/dev-ops culture
Expertise in coding in Java or Scala with emphasis on tuning/optimization

Good software engineering skills:
know how to write clean, testable, and maintainable code
write documentation
understanding of simple and robust designs, including designing APIs
Bonus
Deep understanding of Java and JVM mechanics
Interested in speaking about their work, internally and externally, or writing articles
BS in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills.
Passion for learning and always improving yourself and the team around you

What to Expect from the Job

Take initiative and be responsible for delivering complex software
Working on distributed data-intensive systems, often as part of open-source communities.
Taking ownership of critical parts of the cloud service, including shaping its direction.
Work with the team and outside to get necessary approvals for the architecture and design for the problem at hand
Code, integrate, and operationalize open and closed source data ecosystem components for Oracle cloud service offerings
Working with, and supporting customers/users of the cloud service
Becoming an active member of the Apache open-source community when working on open-source components, Be on top of what’s happening in related communities, and participate in community discussions, events, conferences, etc.
Presenting work at conferences, meetups, or via articles.
Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks, etc.
Experiment with the compute / storage / networking infrastructure as necessary and be able to recommend improvements in the way the service runs in various dimensions of performance, reliability, optimal cost, etc.

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. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new products/services/processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology. Recommends and justifies major changes to existing products/services/processes. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 or more years of software engineering or related experience.
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