Principal Member of Technical Staff

Oracle; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 96,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff to enhance performance for its Cloud Infrastructure storage services. This pivotal role involves evaluating cloud storage solutions, developing improvements, and working closely with subject matter experts to ensure robust system performance. Ideal candidates will possess deep knowledge in distributed systems, cloud technologies, and strong programming skills.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings Plan with company match

Flexible Vacation and paid holidays

Paid parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• 5-10 years distributed service engineering experience.
• Development in Java, C++, C#.
• Hands-on experience in performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate cloud storage performance and identify inefficiencies.
• Lead implementation of changes to drive performance improvements.
• Collaborate with SMEs to align improvements with strategic goals.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software performance profiling

Cloud services

Technical leadership

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or related field

MS preferred

Tools

Benchmarking tools (FIO, Crystaldiskmark, etc.)

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Job Description

Customers run their businesses on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud, leveraging an ever-expanding set of industry-leading cloud-based services such as security, networking, compute, storage, and database. OCI's Block Volumes service operates at massive scale, delivering exabytes of data across 60+ regions.

Job Description

Customers run their businesses on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud, leveraging an ever-expanding set of industry-leading cloud-based services such as security, networking, compute, storage, and database. OCI's Block Volumes service operates at massive scale, delivering exabytes of data across 60+ regions.

As part of the OCI storage performance team, you will be part of the team focused on improving storage performance for object, file and block implementations. In this role, you will be engaging with performance analysts and with functional subject matter experts to improve system performance.

• Evaluate the performance of cloud storage solutions, identify inefficiencies, and design cost-effective solutions.
  
  
  

We are looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed systems, large-scale storage, and scaling services to meet future growth. If this is you, you can be part of the team that drives the best-in-class Storage platform into its next development phase. These are exciting times for the service - we are growing fast and delivering innovative, enterprise-class features to satisfy various customer workloads.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with SMEs within OCI storage to architect performance improvements that align with the strategic direction of the platform.
• Implement proposed changes at proof of concept scale to validate performance gain and system risk.
• Lead a team of engineers through final implement and roll out to OCI storage regions.
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• 5 to 10 years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment
• Development experience in a modern programming language, such as Java, C++, C#
• Knowledge of Linux Systems Internals and Storage Protocols like (iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB).
• Experience working closely with architects, principals, product, and program managers to deliver product features on time and with high quality.
• Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Demonstrable technical leadership and mentorship skills
• Hands-on experience in software performance profiling, analysis, and optimization.
• Experience with industry leading benchmarking tools such as FIO, Crystaldiskmark, IOR, MLPerf, VDBench, HammerDB, SysBench etc.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field (MS preferred)
• Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience driving security reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers from inception through launch
• Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules
• Proven experience in distributed system or cloud infrastructure performance.
  
  
  

Nice to Have:

• Experience with cloud storage services such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong SQL skills and database performance tuning.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Experience with application profiling and workload simulation.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 - $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• 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.

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