Software Developer 5

Oracle

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Austin, TXNashville, TN
Salary
$135,200–$306,400 / yr
Posted
7 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $221k
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This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $125,691–$188,055 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $221k versus about $157k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Software Developer 5

As a Senior Software Developer on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s observability platform team, you will lead the design and development of scalable telemetry systems that support metrics, logs, traces, and related data for both internal cloud services and customer workloads. Your day-to-day responsibilities include architecting resilient ingestion pipelines, optimizing distributed storage solutions, and building query engines to deliver real-time analytics at massive scale. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive technical strategy and mentor junior engineers while staying abreast of emerging trends in observability and cloud-native architectures. The role requires expertise in Java, Go, C++, Python, and experience with multi-tenant services, concurrent programming, and large-scale distributed systems. Ideal candidates are passionate about solving complex challenges in high-throughput data processing and operational excellence within a fast-paced environment.

What you'll do

  • Lead design, development, and operation of cloud-scale observability platforms for metrics and logs.
  • Architect and implement highly scalable telemetry ingestion, processing, storage, and query systems.
  • Drive evolution of end-to-end observability pipelines from data collection to real-time analytics.
  • Design distributed systems for high-throughput telemetry data with strict latency requirements.
  • Develop scalable storage solutions for high-cardinality metrics and large-scale log analytics workloads.
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the observability stack, ensuring reliability and efficiency.
  • Mentor engineers and foster best practices in technical leadership within the organization.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of industry experience in cloud-scale products and services
  • Expertise in Java, Go, C, C++, Python programming languages
  • Experience with multi-tenant services and concurrent programming
  • Strong background in open source technologies for development and management
  • Proven track record in full product/service development and operations lifecycle
  • Deep understanding of performance, scalability, reliability, and recovery in large-scale distributed systems
  • Ability to design and develop observability solutions including metrics, logs, traces

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