Software Developer

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organization has a great opportunity for individuals to build and operate the suite at massive scale, where integrated cloud services are broadly distributed in a multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing 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 significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications.  

Job Description:

The Operational Development and Tooling team is responsible for building core internal operational solutions ranging from automation, to building efficient systems to support scalable processes, to providing creative solutions for other Cloud Service Teams in reducing operational load, which ultimately improves the Customer experience. We are looking for strong, talented developers to take on the challenge of engineering infrastructure solutions for scale, driving performance while providing high availability and resiliency to our customers. Your team will have diverse expertise in systems, networking, and software development to provide the stability, performance and reliability our customers come to expect. We work with multiple service development teams, identify cross-team issues with associated operational risk, and work with many teams across the organization to resolve underlying problems.  With a mixt of engineering solutions, troubleshooting expertise, and general operational guidance this role also requires communication and organizational skills. You are the interface between Engineering Operations and Service Teams.  The work delivered is mission critical and directly contributes to our customer’s success.

Basic Qualifications:

• Proficient with writing services in Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, or Java
• Familiarity with core protocols (DNS, DHCP, HTTP, TCP)
• Proficient with communication skills (writing, organization, learning exchange)
• Most importantly, the aptitude to be a good team player and the willingness to learn and implement new Cloud technologies as needed
• Methodical approach to troubleshooting complex problems
• Familiarity with code versioning tools like Git.
• Background in operations-monitoring, alerts, etc. for large scale environments
• 2+ years managing large scale, highly distributed, services infrastructures
• 2+ years managing host virtualization technologies (KVM, Containers, Docker, etc)

Preferred Qualifications:

• REST APIs
• Experience building solutions on the cloud public/private and cloud computing/networking patterns
• Knowledge of Linux internals and host-based networking
• Experience in production software development with Agile methodologies
• Expert troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with configuration management solutions such as Chef, Puppet, etc.
• A BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent