Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Log Analytics provides a unified platform to collect, index, store, search, and analyze logs (texts) to deliver quick answers on structured and unstructured data. We are looking for creative engineers to help build a world-class product that processes petabytes of data per day, includes distributed services, high volume transaction processing, large scale system design, databases, web services, and AI-driven analysis. The project includes design and implementation of scaling up and down the processing pipeline with elastic databases, processor instances, and data store instances and block/object storages. The program processes and analyzes petabytes of data per day in real time with distributed systems where data storages span clusters comprising thousands of nodes. Developers frequently operate at the leading edge of technology, such as OCI framework services, Oracle AI database, messaging system, open-source search engines (lucene/solr), web services, AI-driven analysis, etc. As a senior member of the team you will drive cross-service platform initiatives over multiple micro services and framework services with significant impact on performance, scalability, reliability, and storage cost on Log Analytics service. 

Qualifications

• B.S, M.S, or Ph.D in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years' experience in the industry
• Programming languages: Java, Python, Shell Script
• Strong computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, concurrency, operating systems)
• REST API and service-oriented development
• Experience of designing, building, and operating distributed services at scale
• Experience of cloud technologies
• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Experience with tools such as terraform is a plus
• Experience with development of searching infrastructure and/or applications is a plus
• Experience with solving computing system problems (CPU/memory/threads) is a plus

Responsibilities

As a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will:

• Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of highly scalable distributed systems that power OCI Log Analytics.
• Drive the technical requirements to critical platform services supporting computes, block volumes, networking, object storage, etc. 
• Act as an expert within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements related to processing pipeline and storage.
• Mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, and raise the engineering bar via technical leadership, design reviews, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC5