Principal Member of Technical Staff - Java, Block Storage Control Plane

Overview

Principal Member of Technical Staff - Java, Block Storage Control Plane s role focuses on the Block Volumes service within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). OCI's Block Volumes service operates at massive scale, delivering exabytes of data across 60+ regions. The Block Storage Control Plane team owns the Block Volumes public API and back-end distributed orchestration layer, ensuring customers experience highly available and performant management of their boot and data volumes, backups, and volume replication.

We are seeking hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed systems, large-scale storage, and scaling services to meet rapid growth in customer demand that OCI is experiencing.

The role involves owning software design and development for core components and features that orchestrate the Block Storage Service. You will leverage strong programming and distributed systems experience to dive deep into any part of the stack, including low-level systems, to design and implement broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to continuously learn.

Join a team that drives OCI s best-in-class Storage platform through its next evolutionary phase.

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• Hands-on engineers with expertise in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services.
• Own the software design and development for major components of the Block Storage Service Infrastructure.
• Be a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive into any part of the Control Plane stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions.
• Value simplicity and scale, work in a collaborative, agile environment, and continue learning.

• 10+ years of experience delivering large-scale, highly available distributed systems and backend services.
• Extensive experience developing clean code in Java (or similar object-oriented language), as well as scripting languages such as Python.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi-threading, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of storage systems (block storage preferred) and distributed persistence technologies.
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized storage infrastructure, data management.

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 benefits: US:
Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 - $223,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, disability coverage, life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k) with company match, paid time off, paid holidays, parental leave, adoption assistance, employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, voluntary benefits, and more.

Oracle is a world leader in cloud solutions, committed to growing an inclusive workforce and promoting opportunities for all. We provide accessibility accommodations upon request and are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Oracle will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting