Principal Member of Technical Staff

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for helping design, build, test, deploy and operate highly scalable services for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Cryptography division (Key Management Service). You should be a rock-solid coder, and a distributed systems generalist who can dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems and design broad distributed system interactions. Your passion for excellence combined with your experience to be an outstanding technical contributor, also help you mentor more junior engineers. You should be able to work independently and as part of a team in an Agile environment. You should be an expert communicator to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in multiple locations around the globe. You should also be able to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment, be results-driven, and thrive even when faced with ambiguity and uncertainty. Most importantly, you should be a team player, someone who is eager to learn, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team succeed.

Required Experience

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum 7 years in a software-engineering related position, at least half of which was in an Agile/DevOps environment
• 5+ years of Java development or OO language
• 5+ years of experience in building and operating distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of microservices, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence
• Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, and performance tuning skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to all audiences.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals is highly desirable
• Knowledge and working experience in cryptography is highly desirable.

As a senior member of our engineering group, you will:

• Provide leadership and expertise in building high quality security components, products and solutions that meet stringent enterprise software requirements.
• Provide technical guidance for projects in multiple security areas in particular data encryption at rest and Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
• Define specifications for new projects, and lead the design, implementation according to the specifications, drive architecture and security reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers through the entire launch process.
• Facilitate high quality integrations with Oracle products and Oracle business units (Database, Fusion Middleware). Go deeper than exposing APIs and make real-world operational scenarios successful.
• Work with team members and managers to improve current products and features, adopt new technologies and better architectural design. Overturn assumptions and think big

Career Level - IC4