Consulting Member of Technical Staff

Job Description

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. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can allow you to build and operate a massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve complex problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. Our engineers have a significant technical and business impact at every level, designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business-critical applications.

We are reimagining whats possible with a true cloud-native database to provide unparalleled performance and durability with our new large-scale distributed services and storage backend. Our services expose highly available, high-performance storage volumes and backups to our elastic compute customers. We’re looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed database systems, storage infrastructure, transaction processing, 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.

Responsibilities

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in defining and evolving standard practices and procedures. You will define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design, and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks for developing, designing, and debugging software applications or operating systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Drive the strategic vision & direction of the Managed PostgreSQLs mission

Work with architects and business stakeholders to deliver new features/services and improvements.

Debug operational issues and suggest fixes, raise the operational bar and scalability of service(s)

Assist customers onboarding to the service as needed

Reimagine service experiences and deliver proof points that improve the service along one or more dimensions (Semantic understanding to improve Operations, Usability, Cost to Serve, Availability, and Storage tiering, to name a few)

Mentor other engineers

This is a challenging role with expectations including but not limited to

Technical leadership to drive critical work items, unlocking onboarding of large customers, service scalability, and new product initiatives, to name a few

Drive roadmap/vision/competitive analysis and bootstrap work streams to keep pace with landscape changes – covert and overt from competition

Excellent communication skills to build consensus across stakeholders and, when need be, collaborate on business cases to seek executive leadership approval.

Bring technical insight and foresight in build/buy/partnership decisions.

Ideal Candidate

Excellent design, architecture, leadership and coding skills

Software Engineering and architecture experience with distributed systems/managed services within large scale environments

10 years experience working on challenging issues with a self-starter / self-motivated attitude

Hands-on operations experience in a DevOps environment and track record of delivering results blended with innovation and operational agility

We will consider candidates with PhD in Computer Science disciplines and 4 years of industry experience as well.

We are open to hiring 100% remote candidates.

Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new products/services/processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology. Recommends and justifies major changes to existing products/services/processes. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 or more years of software engineering or related experience.

About Us

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When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.

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Disclaimer:

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