Senior Core Networking & Data-Plane Engineer

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

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a senior software engineer to tackle challenging system-level architecture for OCI Virtual Networking data-plane. You will design, implement, and optimize highly performant components to scale cloud networking and support AI workloads with low latency.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in data-plane architectures, high-concurrency systems, and C/C++ in Linux environments, and thrive in fast-paced, distributed teams with a startup mindset.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
• Strong experience working on data plane architectures in networking devices.
• Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
• Experience designing, developing and optimizing high performance network solutions using DPDK, C/C++.
• Working experience with Linux OSes/kernels, device drivers, performance testing tools, distributed debugging tools.
• Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environments.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes.
• Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Delivers features and load/performance tests; leverages data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing.
• Reviews peers’ implementations for scalability compliance. Builds fault-tolerant paths and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Proactively detects and mitigates issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks and participates in incident response and RCAs.
• Implements standard replication and synchronization, develops automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies advanced security controls.

Job description

Oracle Corporation is seeking a senior software engineer to tackle challenging system-level architecture for OCI Virtual Networking data-plane. You will design, implement, and optimize highly performant components to scale cloud networking and support AI workloads with low latency.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in data-plane architectures, high-concurrency systems, and C/C++ in Linux environments, and thrive in fast-paced, distributed teams with a startup mindset.