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Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Performance

Oracle Database

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 96,000 - 224,000

Full time

20 days ago

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Job summary

A leading technology company is looking for a Principal Software Engineer in Cloud Performance to optimize services and improve customer experience. The role focuses on enhancing operational efficiency, collaborating with teams to integrate performance tools, and demands a high degree of technical expertise. This opportunity offers a dynamic work environment and the chance to drive significant enhancements in cloud performance.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan
Paid time off and holidays
Paid parental leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

  • 5 to 10 years in a software development environment.
  • Experience in a modern programming language like Java, C++, or C#.
  • Hands-on experience in software performance analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate performance of cloud services and identify inefficiencies.
  • Analyze internal tools and improve developer workflows.
  • Collaborate with teams to integrate performance tools.

Skills

Distributed service engineering
Software performance profiling
Cloud service control

Education

BS degree in Computer Science

Job description

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more.

At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We’re embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as building new innovative platforms, high performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and new container runtime that will allow us to run the full variety of OCI services, including our most demanding, high-performance, high-availability services. We’re also working on new ingenuities such as providing canonical implementation of core components for data planes through a data-plane runtime framework, developing a remote persistent storage solution with the latency and performance comparable to that of a local nVME drive, and developing standards and tools to identify critical performance improvements across OCI data-planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating our expertise on building low level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI.

In addition, TSO organization is charged with creation and governance of the OCI-wide programs to improve organizational engineering standards, governing processes, architectural review boards, change management, intercoms, PSA’s, and recruiting tools.

As Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our newly established Cloud Performance Organization. This team plays a key role in addressing service inefficiencies, reducing cloud expenses, improving customer experience, and ensuring scalability. Your work will focus on optimizing the performance of OCI’s critical components, internal tools, and applications while fostering a culture of performance engineering.

This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new cloud services from the ground up. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

Who are we looking for?

You have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You’ve built and operated high-scale public cloud services and have deep understanding of control plane architecture. You work on most projects and tasks independently and extend technical leadership to development teams.

In this role, you will enable development teams by driving design of major service components, working with engineering managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to more junior team members. You can go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping.

You are technically strong and get a lot done. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You’ve made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument your service. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.

Career Level - IC4

Key Responsibilities

  • Evaluate the performance of cloud services, identify inefficiencies, and design cost-effective solutions.
  • Analyze and optimize internal tools, processes, and developer workflows to enhance operational efficiency.
  • Benchmark OCI services against competitors and identify performance improvement opportunities.
  • Collaborate with service teams to integrate performance evaluation tools into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Quantify and communicate the financial impact of inefficiencies, linking performance data to business metrics.
  • Develop and implement improvements in shared components, libraries, and runtime configurations (e.g., Java runtime, SDKs, and images).

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#
  • Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service control or data planes
  • Hands-on experience in software performance profiling, analysis and optimization.
  • Deep understanding of object-oriented design and SDK development, specifically within a cloud environment
  • 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.
  • Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
  • Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
  • Good understanding of Linux administration and networking stack configuration
  • Demonstrable technical leadership and mentorship skills
  • Familiarity with JVM and benchmarking tools.

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 performance optimization of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems..

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 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

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 - IC4

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s challenges. We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com or by calling +1 888 404 2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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