Senior Member of Technical Staff- OCI CKS

Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team is building services that operate at huge scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best in class compute, storage, networking, database, security, containerised and an ever expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. As part of OCI’s Containers, Kubernetes & Serverless (CKS) team, we aim to provide a rich set of services and tools to enable building and deploying of Cloud Services as containerized workloads and manage the entire development and deployment lifecycle. Among the many CKS services, Oracle’s Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is one of the foundational offerings.

At OKE, we offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineering professionals 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.

We’re looking for Software Engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, cloud native technologies, and highly available services.

If this is you, at Oracle 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.

To top it all, we provide

• Flexible working arrangements
• A fun, state-of-the-art development environment and excellent opportunities for learning and career growth.
• Participating in the software engineering community at Oracle and beyond
• Discussing potential solutions to complex technical problems and building consensus among disparate teams.
• Designing and implementing exciting new features or services for our customers.
• Compensation no bar for right candidates.

Required Qualifications

General Skills

• 4+ years of experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available, distributed systems.
• Must have strong knowledge of GoLang/Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python.
• Must have strong knowledge in CI/CD using team city, bitbucket, git etc.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and demonstrated ability to deliver quality code
• Experience working on multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus
• Excellent analytical skills and willingness to look at alternate paths to a solution
• Strong communication skills to be able to communicate with people across the globe and in different time zone using via multiple channels.
• Bachelors or Master’s degree in Engineering. A degree in Computer Science would be a big plus
• Prior experience with operating and building services would be a big plus
• Prior DevOps exposure is a plus
• Willingness to perform DevOps and support on-call as well.
• Should have a bias for action and should be willing to take ownership of a problem and solve it to completion

Specific Technology Exposure

• A strong understanding of the architecture of the commonly available IaaS solutions and how they fit together. The candidate should have actively contributed in past for the design changes and architectural enhancements
• A strong understanding of the container technology like Docker and container orchestration technology like Kubernetes. Familiarity with managed Kubernetes service like Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon Kubernetes Service will be an added advantage.
• Exposure to managing deployments on Azure, AWS and GCP is a big plus. Exposure in debugging problems in cloud deployments
• Experience working with Open Source Communities is a big plus.
• Demonstrated work experience in deployment and operations of services (internal or public cloud) is a plus

Automation skills are a big plus

Career Level - IC3

Responsibilities

You will work on a team that owns the design, development, and operations for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure in the Cloud Native space.

You should be a distributed systems generalist, able to architect broad systems interactions, while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower level system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.