Job Description

About OCI

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications.

Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challenges? Are you interested in large-scale, highly distributed systems? If so, then Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure team is for you. We're looking for strong technical leaders with backgrounds in distributed systems and storage to help build a highly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment on a massive scale.

You will never be bored in this job. We need people with a passion towards customer satisfaction and expertise in distributed systems, storage, and highly available services. How will we build this? It could be up to you but we apply solid engineering and design principles to develop world-class, highly available services.

We are still at an early stage and an entrepreneurial, fast-paced mentality is critical for success in this position: a passionate can-do attitude, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to collaborate while acting, as a thought leader in your area of expertise will serve you well on Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure Team. Does this sound like a challenge you're ready for?

Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building second-generation Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate in a broadly-distributed, multitenant cloud environment.

Our mission is to provide our customers with best-in-class compute, networking, and storage services to build their businesses on our cloud.

About OCI Search Service

OCI Search Service offers OpenSearch as a managed service offering. Customers use this service for their log analytics, observability, SIEM, application search, and machine learning use cases. OCI Search Service also provides ML based semantic and conversational search features that enabl customers to perform more meaningful searches.

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Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced technical leader who enjoys building complex, highly technical products and services from ground up. As a member of the OCI Search Service team, you will help us define the future of services used daily by both customers and internal teams.

Work with OCI product leaders to translate business requirements into technical specifications. Architect, design and develop scalable, operationally-focused, customer-facing cloud services.

Define the vision along with long and short term technical strategy for the products. Automate common tasks to enable continuous delivery and ensure continuous availability with minimal human overhead.

Drive performant, forward-thinking solutions to completion on time. Maintain both development and production infrastructure as part of a customer-focused engineering culture.

Provide technical guidance and constructive feedback to leadership, team members, and other stakeholders.

Contribute to product roadmaps by identifying areas of need and engaging with stakeholders to scope work.

Lead, mentor and coach junior members in the team.

Raise the bar for engineering quality and best practices.

Qualifications

8+ years of experience in the software industry with 3+ years being a senior developer/technical leader working on architecture, design, development and delivery of highly scalable products and services.

In-depth understanding of the entire product development lifecycle that includes liaising with product management, coming up with technical specification for the PRD at hand, assisting to make product impacting decisions, architecting and designing world-class services, developing and reviewing code, driving DevOps, managing releases and operations.

Ability to identify opportunities for innovation, thought leadership, and open source contribution to remain competitive in the market. Drive to be on top of tech-debt, plan ahead for continuous improvements in technology and operations and maintain a solid security posture.

Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.

Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments. Ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Ability to create, drive and evangelize cross-team processes and achieve org-wide impact

Commitment to capturing and maintaining institutional knowledge.

Experience working with geographically distributed teams.

Strong development experience in Java programming language.

Exposure to Storage and Database domain. Knowledge of the internal architecture and design of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.

Understanding of Microservice based architectures, Distributed systems, Databases and Cloud.

Good grip over GIT, JIRA, Teamcity/Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, etc.

Familiarity with one or more of the following is highly preferable – ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Lucene, and ELK.

Previous experience of working in cloud computing, enterprise software, or fast-paced start-ups is highly desirable.

Exposure to advances in AI and ML technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI (Gen AI), Retrieval Augmented

Generation (RAG), Vector databases, Transformers and Attention Models, etc. is highly preferable.

About Us

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s problems. True innovation starts with diverse perspectives and various abilities and backgrounds.

When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.

We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by calling +1 888 404 2494, option one.

Disclaimer:

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. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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