Senior Member of Technical Staff; Debian

Job Description

Do you have a passion for designing and developing new frameworks/cloud services and working with Oracle's most critical customers? As a Linux OS expert in our team, you will work with a team of engineers responsible for building a new cloud service to improve collaboration among different development and operations teams. You should be a highly self‑motivated individual in the team that builds and evolves this service over time with new capabilities and optimizations.

A deep level of understanding will be needed across the board as this service will touch many areas ranging from hardware, OS, cloud, and security. The ideal candidate will have:

• Technical experience with Linux OS and security features, distributed systems, and CI/CD pipelines at a detailed level while understanding high-level design
• Good collaboration with different teams that come from different backgrounds
• Clear and concise communication
• Strong troubleshooting skills and a curiosity to dig deep and quickly understand new issues

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• VISA sponsorship is not available for this role
• Weekend on‑call rotation will be required

We are a world‑class team of high‑caliber cloud engineers. We are an inclusive and diverse team with a full spectrum of experience distributed globally. We have the resources of a large enterprise and the energy of a start‑up, working on a critical greenfield software assurance project collaboratively with our cloud and site reliability teams. The Software Assurance organization has the mission to make application security and software assurance, at scale, a reality.

• Design architectures and create new services that operate reliably at an extremely large scale
• Implement capabilities and features ranging from OS level config changes, OS agents, and deployment pipelines
• Technically strong and productive; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements.
• Understand operational excellence and know‑how to infuse a culture of being proactive within your team.
• Recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data‑driven approaches.

• BS degree in CS, EE, or equivalent
• 5 years of industry experience developing code at the Linux OS level (agents, plugins, daemons)
• Experience with Linux distros preferably Debian, open source, Git Hub, deployment pipeline, terraform, ansible
• Experience in Linux security and compliance
• Experience in building/packaging software components
• Languages:
  
  Proficiency in any of Python, Go, C, Java, bash
• Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, honest and open communication
• Handle hard problems with a positive "can do" attitude
• Team player able to work with others at all skill levels, and able to go beyond when needed

• Exposure to large‑scale cutting‑edge systems
• Resources of a large, global operation while still having the small, start‑up feel of a smaller team day to day
• New skills and competencies working with our vast cloud product offerings
• Ongoing extensive training and skills development to further your career aspirations
• Incredible benefits and company perks
• An organization filled with smart, enthusiastic, and motivated colleagues
• Opportunity to impact and improve our systems and delight our customers

US:
Hiring range in USD from $79,200 – $178,100 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity. 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…