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

Are you interested in working on the Storage Infrastructure team that operates with Exabytes of data in 60+ regions? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with industry-leading computing, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. Our team seeks hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving complex problems in distributed systems, large-scale storage, and scaling services to meet future growth. If this is you, you can be part of the team that drives the best-in-class Storage platform into its next development phase. These are exciting times for the service - we are growing fast and delivering innovative, enterprise-class features to satisfy various customer workloads.

As a member of the Block Storage Control Plane team, you will own the software design and development for core components and features that orchestrate the Block Storage Service. It would be best if you were a strong programmer and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems and design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Career Level - IC4

We’re looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available storage services. As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will own the software design and development for major components of the Block Storage Service Infrastructure. You should be both a rock solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the Control Plane stack and low level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.