Senior Member of Technical Staff; Debian

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

Career Level – IC3

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

Who are we?

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.

We are a dedicated team, leveraging each other’s insights and abilities to produce cutting‑edge large‑scale services. Join us to grow your career and create the future of software assurance systems at scale together.

• 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
• Language 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