Senior Member of Technical Staff

As a Senior Member of Technical Staff, you will design and develop major new features within existing systems, playing a key role in driving engineering excellence. Youll help elevate development practices, operational efficiency, team ownership, and mentoring culture. You may also collaborate with teams across the organization.
You will write secure, maintainable, and robust code along with comprehensive tests. You ll lead the design and implementation of features and subsystems, ensuring their operational readiness and excellence. You will actively participate in planning and risk mitigation for systems and services across the organization. You ll work independently on most projects, occasionally requiring guidance in areas that demand deep industry experience such as designing secure, high-performance, scalable systems or managing complex cross-team dependencies. You ll frequently identify and resolve issues without needing assistance, lead root cause analysis efforts, and recommend effective solutions. Youll also build new metrics and dashboards to enhance visibility and situational awareness. Additionally, you ll identify and implement improvements that reduce operational overhead, increase availability, improve compliance with organizational standards, and minimize technical debt.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products 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. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer s business critical applications.

Who are we looking for

We are looking for engineers with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You ve operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You work on most projects and tasks independently. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances, but have to abide by compliance and regulations. The ideal candidate will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle s Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. Required Qualifications 4+ years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment Experience driving feature design reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers through the entire launch process Strong development experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar OO languages Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures Good understanding of databases, SQL, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus Preferred Qualifications Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle) Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules Expertise in applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques to develop security solutions Experience and understanding of Cryptograph, DDoS, CVE, CIS, SAST, DAST, or similar security and compliance knowledge