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As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer within the software engineering division, you will join the Compute team to design and build large-scale distributed infrastructure for cloud services. You will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, focusing on high availability, scalability, and performance. Your daily work involves developing, designing, and debugging software applications or operating systems while defining standard practices and procedures. To succeed in this role, you must be a skilled coder and distributed systems generalist proficient in Java, C, or C++, along with scripting languages like Python or Perl. You will solve complex problems involving virtualized infrastructure, networking protocols such as TCP/IP and HTTP, and operating system internals to provide elastic compute capabilities for diverse workloads within a mission-critical, multi-tenant environment.
Own the software design and development for major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure.
Develop, design, and debug software applications and operating systems for large-scale distributed environments.
Design architectures that ensure high availability, scalability, and performance for mission-critical services.
Perform deep-dive coding and troubleshooting across the entire technology stack including low-level systems.
Create technical documentation including proposals, design specifications, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
Optimize system performance and troubleshoot issues within a multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure.
Define and evolve standard engineering practices and procedures for the software engineering division.
What we're looking for
Must have 8+ years of software development experience with distributed systems in large-scale environments.
Proficiency in Java, C, or C++ is required along with experience in scripting languages like Python or Perl.
Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure is required.
Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one livesite servicing is required.
Must be able to communicate technical ideas effectively in writing and verbally through proposals, designs, and presentations.
Ability to design architectures that ensure high availability, scalability, and flexibility for future business demands is required.
Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, distributed systems fundamentals, and cloud-native development (preferred).
Familiarity with operating system internals, networking protocols, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and multi-tenant virtualized infrastructure (preferred).
C++
Java
Distributed Systems
Cloud Networking
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OpenStack
AWS
GCP
Azure
Networking
High Availability
Data Structures
Algorithms
Operating Systems
Agile
Java
Python
Distributed Systems
Microservices
CI/CD
DevOps
Data Modeling
Linux
Windows
Application Security
System Design
Software Architecture
Algorithms
Data Structures
Java
Python
Distributed Systems
Microservices
CI/CD
DevOps
Data Modeling
Linux
Windows
Application Security
System Design
Software Architecture
Observability
Algorithms
Data Structures
Java
Python
Distributed Systems
Microservices
Databases
Data Modeling
CI/CD
DevOps
Observability
Linux
Windows
Application Security
System Design
Software Architecture
Java
C
C++
Python
Perl
Distributed Systems
TCP/IP
HTTP
Operating Systems
AIOps
Data Structures
Algorithms
Networking Protocols
Infrastructure as a Service