Principal Member of Technical Staff

Oracle

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$114,600–$234,600 / yr
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126 days ago
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Below market

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This role $175k
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This role pays less than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$224,025 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $175k versus about $201k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Principal Member of Technical Staff

As a Principal Member of Technical Staff within the software engineering division, you will join the Compute team to design, build, and maintain large-scale distributed infrastructure for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will take an active role in defining standard practices while owning the software design and development for major components of the cloud platform. Your daily work involves developing, designing, and debugging software applications or operating systems to ensure high availability and scalability. To succeed, you must be a proficient coder and distributed systems generalist skilled in Java, C, C++, and scripting languages like Python or Perl. You will solve complex problems involving virtualized infrastructure, networking protocols such as TCP/IP and HTTP, and multi-tenant environments. This role focuses on providing elastic compute capabilities to run diverse workloads within a mission-critical, high-availability cloud environment.

What you'll do

  • Own the software design and development for major components of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Develop and debug software for distributed systems, operating systems, and large-scale infrastructure.
  • Design architectures that ensure high availability, scalability, and flexibility for future business demands.
  • Perform deep-dive troubleshooting and performance tuning in a mission-critical production environment.
  • Create technical documentation including proposals, design specifications, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
  • Solve complex problems related to virtualized infrastructure and distributed system interactions.
  • Implement software solutions using Java, C, C++, or scripting languages like Python and Perl.

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 in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one livesite servicing is required.
  • Ability to design architectures for high availability, scalability, and technical depth across multiple products.
  • Must be able to communicate technical ideas effectively in writing and verbally through proposals, specs, and diagrams.
  • Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and cloud-native development is preferred.
  • Familiarity with operating system internals, networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP), and troubleshooting skills are preferred.

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