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As a member of the software engineering division, you will serve as a Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, where you will design, develop, debug, and improve software supporting the OCI hardware repair platform. You will build distributed-system components to enhance scalability, reliability, and performance while evolving existing architecture through peer reviews and robust service development. Your daily work involves building fault-tolerant components using replication and circuit breakers, developing telemetry dashboards, and performing root-cause investigations. The role requires proficiency in Java, data structures, algorithms, and operating systems, alongside experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or OCI. You will also utilize Python or Perl for scripting while managing REST APIs and infrastructure automation. This position addresses the technical challenge of maintaining high-availability distributed systems and ensuring secure, scalable operations within a complex hardware repair ecosystem.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 2011 postings across 148 companies.
Design and implement distributed system components for the hardware repair platform.
Improve software scalability, reliability, and data processing performance.
Build fault-tolerant components using replication, failover, retries, and circuit breakers.
Develop telemetry, dashboards, and alerts to support production monitoring.
Participate in incident response and perform root-cause investigations for system issues.
Maintain infrastructure automation tools and implement security controls like encryption.
Perform performance tuning and troubleshoot complex issues in operating environments.
Conduct peer code reviews and validate solutions through automated testing.
What we're looking for
Meet one of the following: 8 years of software development experience; or a bachelor's degree plus 4 years; or a master's degree plus 2 years; or a doctorate in a relevant field.
2 years of professional experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OCI.
3 years of experience in testing and automation at the system level.
2 years of experience delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Proficiency in Java and strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills to diagnose issues and improve system efficiency.
Experience developing, testing, and integrating secure REST APIs and services with modern web application development knowledge.
Proficiency across the software development lifecycle including source control, code reviews, and prototyping; proficiency with Python or Perl (preferred); experience with multi-tenant infrastructure and NoSQL systems (preferred).
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AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Java
C++
C#
Go
Infrastructure as Code
Microservices
Networking
Data Structures
Algorithms
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C++
C#
Go
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Infrastructure as Code
Distributed Systems
Microservices
Observability
Data Processing
Networking
Security Controls
Fault-Injection Testing
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Java
C++
C#
Go
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure as Code
Microservices
Observability
Data Processing
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Networking
Security Controls
Fault-Injection Testing