Principal Member of Technical Staff

Ll Oefentherapie; United States; On-site; USD 96,800 - 223,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

Flexible Vacation

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff to join their Cloud Infrastructure team in the United States. The role involves software design and development for major components of Oracle's cloud services, requiring proficiency in Java, C, or C++ and extensive experience with distributed systems.

The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience and possesses strong problem-solving and communication skills. This position comes with a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with distributed systems within large-scale environments.
• Experiencing in an operational environment with mission-critical services.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure.
• Work in a collaborative, agile environment and solve complex problems.
• Manage broad distributed system interactions and maintain high availability.

Skills

Software development experience with distributed systems

Proficient in Java

Proficient in C or C++

Experience with scripting languages like Python

Systematic problem-solving approach

Strong communication skills

Education

8+ years of software development experience

Tools

Java

C

C++

Python

Job description

Job Description

We're looking for hands‑on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. An engineer at any level can have a significant technical and business impact.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in defining and evolving standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing, and debugging software applications or operating systems.

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start‑up, with the scale and customer focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI's foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged. If you want to build large‑scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud, this is your team!

Oracle is aggressively investing in Oracle Cloud to provide the industry's broadest, most comprehensive cloud. Only Oracle offers a complete suite of integrated services that include applications as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service eliminating the data and business process fragmentation that come with cloud silos. A critical part of these silos is the Infrastructure Services, including Compute, Storage, and Messaging service. This is your chance to be part of this exciting Compute team that offers elastic compute capabilities to run any workload in the cloud.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock‑solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low‑level systems and design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with distributed systems within large‑scale environments.
• Proficient in Java, C, or C++ and experience with scripting languages like Python, Perl, etc.
• Experience working on large‑scale, highly distributed services infrastructure.
• Experience working in an operational environment with mission‑critical tier‑one livesite servicing.
• Systematic problem‑solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive.
• Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market‑leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands.
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations).

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, distributed systems fundamentals, and cloud‑native development.
• Working familiarity with operating systems internals, networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Experience building multi‑tenant, virtualized infrastructure, a strong plus.

Qualifications

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 to $223,400 per annum. 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.

Career Level - IC4

About Us

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