Software Developer 3

As a Senior Member of Technical Staff you will own the software design and development for major components of Oracles 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.

About you:

• You work backward, starting from the user. You care about creating usable, useful software that solves real problems and brings delight to users.
• You have solid communication skills. You can clearly explain complex technical concepts.
• You work well with non-engineers. You can lead a conversation in a room with designers, engineers, and product managers.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity. You have a strong sense of ownership, and are able to drive development of new projects and features to completion.
• You are comfortable working at all levels of the stack.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience shipping services software
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals. Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and standards, including SMTP, REST, SSL and HTTP
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with building cloud services
• Good understanding of event streaming platforms like Apache Kafka
• Strong grasp of Kubernetes
• Experience in a start-up environment
• Experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems
• Strong grasp of Unix-like operating systems
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus