Principal Member Technical Staff

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Job Description

Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building services 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 best‑in‑class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever‑expanding set of foundational cloud‑based services.

We’re looking for hands‑on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems 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.

An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

About You

You work backward, starting from the user. You care about creating usable, useful software that solves real problems and brings delight to users.

You have solid communication skills. You can clearly explain complex technical concepts.

You work well with non‑engineers. You can lead a conversation in a room with designers, engineers, and product managers.

You are comfortable with ambiguity. You have a strong sense of ownership, and are able to drive development of new projects and features to completion.

You are comfortable working at all levels of the stack.

This position is expected to be onsite full time in Nashville, TN. This is not a remote position.

Responsibilities

• Lead the software design and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.
• Dive deep into any part of the stack and low‑level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions.
• Value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Building software solutions in an engineering environment using C, C++, Python, Java, Shell Scripting, and JavaScript.
• Experience with RDBMS such as MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL or No
  
  SQL databases.
• Object oriented design and object oriented programming.
• Agile or Scrum methodologies.
• Microservices hosted in leading cloud environments, AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Containerized applications, Docker, Kubernetes or similar application.
• Develop and troubleshoot large scalable distributed systems written in C and C++ on Linux platforms.
• Distributed systems design.
• RESTful API design.
• Strong understanding of event streaming platforms like Apache Kafka.
• Strong grasp of Kubernetes.
• Experience in a start‑up environment.
• Experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong grasp of Unix‑like operating systems.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 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 and paid sick leave.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.