Senior Principal Software Developer

Oracle; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Principal Software Developer to tackle engineering challenges in foundational data-plane services for OCI cloud. The role involves leading the design and development of innovative solutions, optimizing high-performance network architectures, and mentoring junior developers in a collaborative, agile environment.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Flexible Spending Accounts

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant engineering or development experience.
• Expert knowledge in cloud infrastructure and data plane architectures.
• Strong experience in high-performance network solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead software design and development for OCI data-plane components.
• Define architectural changes and collaborate with executives.
• Guide junior team members and perform code reviews.

Skills

High performance network solutions

Data plane architectures

System design

Agile environment

Cloud infrastructure concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

DPDK

C/C++

P4

Linux OS

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JOB DESCRIPTION

We are facing several engineering challenges in critical foundational data-plane services that powers the next gen OCI cloud. We need you to challenge existing engineering assumptions and boundaries, bring in your expertise in highly performant, reliable, available system engineering to take OCI data-planes to the next level.

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are facing several engineering challenges in critical foundational data-plane services that powers the next gen OCI cloud. We need you to challenge existing engineering assumptions and boundaries, bring in your expertise in highly performant, reliable, available system engineering to take OCI data-planes to the next level.

This is your opportunity to build innovative solutions for our customers from the ground up. These are exciting times and our team is still young and growing fast, working on ambitious new initiatives such as providing canonical implementation of core components for data planes through a data-plane runtime framework, developing a remote storage solution with the latency and performance comparable to that of a local NVMe drive or developing standard and tooling to identify critical performance improvements across OCI data-planes.

We are looking for self-motivated technical leaders with passion and expertise in solving challenging system, data-plane level architecture and performance problems. You should be a rock solid developer able to dive deep into low-level systems, design solutions in networking, storage high scale data-planes. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Responsibilities

With your superb technical, research and analytical capabilities and demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively to delight our customers, you will envision, collaborate with executives for investment and drive the software design and development for new major data-plane components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You will define the foundations for the next generation of OCI data-planes, making deep architectural changes calls as an outstanding builder and technical leader with an established industry track record of success in leading large cloud scale projects.

You will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will perform software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems. You will be able to work with Engineering Managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to 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 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.

Responsibilities

• 10+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
• Strong experience working on data plane architectures in networking devices, storage applications using SPDK, offload with accelerators
• Strong experience designing, developing and optimizing high performance network solutions using DPDK, C/C++ and P4
• Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
• Working experience with some of the following technologies: Linux OSes/kernels, device drivers, performance testing tools, distributed debugging tools
• Strong team leader with ability to lead teams in technical direction and strategy 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.
  
  
  

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 - $251,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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 - IC5

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