Principal Software Engineer

Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at large scale in a distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Join OCI Networking to build highly scalable and customizable services offering predictable and consistent performance, isolation, and availability.

We are a team that builds and maintains distributed services to manage OCI networks. Currently, we are looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in automating monitoring and management of large fleets of networking devices. These are exciting times, and our team is undergoing rapid growth while working on many new ambitious initiatives. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

Join our team and help us build a state-of-the-art IaaS solutions.

Why join OCI Networking?

The OCI Networking org has a culture of collaboration which welcomes new people to their ranks. We work together and help each other out, and make sure that onboarding and ramp-up experience is a great one. We focus on excellent customer experience, scalable architecture, manageable operations, and minimal technical debt, with a strong focus on reasonable on-call and a good work/life balance.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Network Automation team, you will help design and develop tooling and infrastructure to manage a growing fleet of networking devices. You will be one of the engineers responsible for delivering a highly available, and secure fleet of critical OCI Networking infrastructure. Our team owns onboarding new generation network technologies, deployment tooling, patching, fleet monitoring and automation, and security and access controls.

We work with many partner teams in OCI to ensure our networking is best in class.

As a member of our team you will be required to:

• Maintain and build new technologies to automate the management of distributed fleet of networking devices. This includes distributed deployment and monitoring tooling.
• Automate and maintain build and test systems including systems for performance and scalability testing.
• Improve efficiency of the deployment processes across a fast-growing number of regions through automation and scale improvements to tools and dashboards.
• Participate in our on-call rotation which requires monitoring our fleet and associated services.
• Improve our operational capabilities by developing runbooks, alarming, and building tools.

You are an expert in Java, comfortable with Python, and have distributed system knowledge and application development experience. You value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and are excited to learn.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors in computer science and Engineering or related engineering fields
• Distributed systems experience
• 5+ years of experience with Java Programming
• 4+ years of experience with Python
• 2+ years of Dev Ops experience
• Proficient with build tools and pipelines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in CI/CD environments
• Experience with Agile Development
• Prior cloud experience
• Experience automating management of networking devices

Career Level - IC4