Oracle Hiring for Principal Member of Technical Staff at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

Full Job DescriptionAt Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is leading the transformation to cloud-native Big Data technologies in our hyperscale, multi-tenant cloud deployed in more than 30 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. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure.

We’re looking for a senior engineer with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems and highly available services in the domain of Data Management, who can help in the buildout and development of OCI Data Flow Service. At OCI, we have multiple Big Data services that are managed and cloud-native – OCI Big Data Service, OCI Data Flow, OCI Data Integration, OCI Streaming, OCI Data Catalog, Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), among others. The OCI Data Flow service aims to provide a cost effective way to run any ETL or AI/ML workflow using serverless architecture. It is a fully managed service based on Apache Spark.

From a technology perspective, this is a greenfield development environment with a huge amount of autonomy, leaving us free to build and innovate without being encumbered by legacy products and services. This is a great opportunity to join a team that’s building a cloud-native service from scratch.

Responsibilities

Work with members of the team and define the architecture of the Control Plane, and lead development of Control Plane features needed to make the OCI Data Lake Service successful
Support a highly available and resilient cloud service, and build the supporting systems to be able to deliver on these
Understand the OCI ecosystem and the broader Oracle ecosystem on the Data management and retrieval aspects and define a Control Plane that can accommodate the disparate services and products. Innovate around how to bring these services together in a cohesive way that is also very easy to use.
Mentor junior engineers and make them successful as well in their assignments
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. The scale of data is at the petabyte level; a great emphasis will be on drawing the last ounce of performance out of the underlying hardware to minimize the total cost of ownership for our customers.

Desired Skills and Experience

10+ years software development experience
Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed
Prior experience in building, or contributing to, distributed data-intensive systems
Experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems
Working knowledge of at least one public cloud networking/security api (ex: AWS VPC, security groups).
Solid understanding of and experience with Containers, Docker, Kubernetes and the like
Experience with at least one family of monitoring/logging/observability tools (ex: elasticsearch, prometheus, fluentd)

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
Interested in speaking about their work, internally and externally, or writing articles
Having knowledge of Apache Spark and other BigData components
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

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. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.
Innovation starts with inclusion at Oracle. We are committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people can be themselves and do their best work. It’s when everyone’s voice is heard and valued, that we are inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. That’s why we need people with diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and abilities to help us create the future, and are proud to be an affirmative-action equal opportunity employer.

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