About Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)
Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure s managed Kubernetes platform, enabling customers to run secure, scalable, and resilient container workloads. Join our team to help design, build, and operate cloud-native solutions for mission-critical, global customers.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science or a closely related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
- Experience: 6+ years of professional software development experience.
- Technical Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Java and related technologies.
- Thorough understanding of RESTful API design and distributed system fundamentals.
- Strong experience and deep expertise in Kubernetes platform architecture, operations, and ecosystem.
- Experience with cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and secure software development practices.
- Solid problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, especially in production or high-scale environments.
- Collaboration: Proven ability to work independently on projects and pursue appropriate guidance when required, especially on cross-team initiatives.
- You should be a distributed systems generalist, able to understand broad systems interactions, have excellent design skills while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower-level system interactions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience integrating Java solutions with Kubernetes, container networking, or developing custom operators/controllers.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure as code.
- Exposure to Go or Python is a plus.
- Contributions to open-source projects or experience in large-scale cloud environments.
What We Offer
- we're looking for a Software Engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, a chance to make an impact on cloud services used at a global scale.
- At OCI you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, and working on ambitious new initiatives.
- Work on a team that owns the design, development, and operations in the cloud-native and Kubernetes community, collaborate with high-caliber engineers and leaders.
- Opportunities for professional growth, mentorship, and technical leadership.
- Competitive salary, benefits, and flexible work arrangements.
Career Level - IC4
Key Responsibilities
- Independently drive design, implementation, and operational excellence for backend services and components of the OKE platform, with a focus on Java and related technologies.
- Collaborate across teams: Work effectively with architects, product leaders, and other engineering teams to ensure solutions meet business objectives around scalability, security, and availability.
- Lead and deliver on moderately complex features and subsystems; improve existing platform elements, and contribute to new ancillary features.
- Demonstrate engineering rigor: Write robust, maintainable, and secure code, while producing appropriate tests and clear technical documentation.
- Contribute to operational readiness: Support incident response as part of the on-call rotation, proactively identify and mitigate operational risks, and suggest improvements to tools, dashboards, and metrics.
- Mentorship: Act as a resource for junior engineers and collaborate within and sometimes across teams on cross-functional projects.
- Continuous improvement: Engage in ongoing development of engineering practices, and operational and development processes.
- Business impact: Directly contribute to customer satisfaction and organizational goals by improving core features and enhancing organizational knowledge.
