Senior Software Engineer (hyperscale)

JR United Kingdom; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its innovative cloud infrastructure team in Newcastle. The role involves programming, debugging, and enhancing services that drive Oracle's SaaS applications. Successful applicants will thrive in agile environments, working across technologies like Java and Docker, while contributing to complex system challenges.

Qualifications

• Experience in programming with languages like Java, Python, or Go.
• Familiarity with containerization and virtualization technologies.
• Ability to analyze and debug software across the stack.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend code for OCI functions.
• Work collaboratively in agile teams to design and test solutions.
• Participate in a 12x7 on-call rotation to support production.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

Containerization

Virtualization

Debugging

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

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Senior Software Engineer (hyperscale), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear

Client: Oracle

Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Views: 3

Posted: 07.06.2025

Expiry Date: 22.07.2025

Job Description:

Oracle’s product engineering teams are building critical services within Oracle’s next-generation public cloud infrastructure known as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). These services provide the foundation for businesses around the world as well as Oracle’s Cloud (SaaS) Applications.

The Platform

With revolutionary innovations in performance, availability, ease of use, and security, we designed OCI for the reliability, predictability, and quality that the world’s largest companies and smartest start-ups need. We combined the elasticity and utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure. As a result, our customers can run the most demanding workloads, as well as less compute-intensive applications, in a secure and highly available cloud environment.

The Product

OCI Functions is a fully managed, multi-tenant, highly scalable, on-demand, Functions-as-a-Service platform, deployed in dozens of commercial, government, and private data centres around the world. The deployment model is extremely flexible, supporting a wide variety of use cases. OCI Functions is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for Oracle SaaS workloads, backs the API Gateway for serving customer applications, and supports Data Science processing use cases.

The Positions

Senior Software Engineer

As we expand and grow our team, we seek engineers with varying levels of experience. Those starting their career with us will have a hunger and passion for learning. More experienced candidates will bring diverse skills across programming, networking, storage, internet protocols, and operating systems. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

As a member of our diverse and skilled teams, you will have the opportunity to solve and design solutions for challenging problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services.

The Responsibilities

On a typical day, you will work as part of a small, focused, agile team and could be involved in:

• Programming, testing, and operating software at the core of OCI, including:
• Writing backend code in Java, Python, Go, or other modern programming languages.
• Working with containerization and virtualization technologies such as Docker, containerd, and Kubernetes.
• Deploying and operating software in data centers worldwide.
• Analyzing, diagnosing, and debugging issues across the entire stack.
• Debugging, maintaining, and improving existing systems, focusing on performance and operational efficiency.
• Scaling operations through tooling and automation.
• Participating in the software engineering community at Oracle and beyond, including:
• Discussing complex technical problems and building consensus among teams.
• Designing and implementing new features or services for customers.

All engineers participate in operating and supporting the product in production and take part in a 12x7 on-call PagerDuty rotation, typically every 5-7 weeks depending on team size.