Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer (OCI Object Storage)

Oracle Corporation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Seattle is seeking an experienced senior engineer to own software design for major components of the Object Storage Service within Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. You will drive scalable, reliable, and highly available solutions for enterprise workloads in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment.

You will work on system design, architecture, and automation in a collaborative, agile environment, delivering enterprise-class features with simplicity and scale.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems and large-scale storage architectures.
• Strong coding skills and hands-on software development experience.
• Familiarity with distributed state management, fault tolerance, and system reliability.

Responsibilities

• Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Optimizes code and systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
• Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
• Leverages data plane components to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• Implements performance and load testing.

Skills

Distributed systems

Large-scale storage

Object storage

System design

Cloud infrastructure

Automation

Job description

Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with industry leading compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

As part of this effort, the Object Storage Service team is looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, large scale storage, and highly available services. If this is you, you can be part of the team that drives the best-in-class Object Storage Service into the next phase of its development. These are exciting times for the service - we are growing fast, and delivering on innovative, enterprise class features to satisfy the most demanding big data and enterprise workloads for our customers. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

As a senior engineer, you will own the software design and development for major components and features of the Object Storage Service. You should be both a rock-solid coder and with familiarity of distributed systems. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Internal Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:

• –Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
• –Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
• –Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
• –Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• –Implements performance and load testing.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:

• –Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• –Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
• –Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:

• –Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
• –Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
• –Builds and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.

System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:

• –Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
• –Implements tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
• –Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• –Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
• –Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• –Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
• –Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security:

• –Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
• –Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
• –Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date.

Automation & Change Management:

• –Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
• –Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• –Track timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements.
• –Prioritize and adjust work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• –Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving:

• –Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.

Continuous Learning:

• –Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools, and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.

Continuous Improvement:

• –Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

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External Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:

• –Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
• –Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
• –Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
• –Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• –Implements performance and load testing.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:

• –Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• –Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
• –Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:

• –Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
• –Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
• –Builds and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.

System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:

• –Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
• –Implements tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
• –Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• –Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
• –Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• –Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
• –Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security:

• –Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
• –Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
• –Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date.

Automation & Change Management:

• –Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
• –Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• –Track timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements.
• –Prioritize and adjust work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• –Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving:

• –Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.

Continuous Learning:

• –Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools, and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.

Continuous Improvement:

• –Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

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