We are looking for a talented and motivated Consulting Member of Technical Staff for the Forerunner services team in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Our tools and services support OCI's teams' ability to discover, operate and troubleshoot infrastructure and service changes around the world. If you are interested in using your background in distributed systems and cloud services to help identify and reduce problems by creating automation and tooling, this is your kind of thing.

As a Consulting Member of Technical Staff you will own and lead software architecture and development for major components of our cloud service. You should be a distributed systems generalist, able to architect broad systems interactions, while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower level system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in an innovative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. Your role is to enable service teams and operators to manage frequent changes safely and with least possible cognitive load. We are building tools and services to provide the best in class operational experience and you will be key to this effort. This entails design, development, and troubleshooting software among our databases, applications, tools, networks etc., while making it even easier for others to do so.

You will be responsible to:

    Design, development, and enhancement of new and existing products and services from inception and design through deployment.

    Adopt and enhance OCI standard tools and DevOps standards, and practices. 

    Conduct code and architecture reviews of the products and services.

    Resolve performance and scalability issues related to products and services.

    Contribute to architecture standards and community practices.

    Identify opportunities to improve the health, scalability, and resiliency of products and services.

    Build highly complex enhancements and resolve complex bugs.

    Build and execute unit tests and unit plans.

    Review integration and regression test plans.

You will be building tools for monitoring complex systems and high volume transactions, and their integration with other business applications. You shall be able to identify problems before they occur. In this role, you will also be guiding more junior developers globally.

Preferred Requirements:

   10+ years experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems, with hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)

   Previous success mitigating risk and making nuanced trade-offs designing for security, operability, availability, performance, scalability and extensibility.

   Strong knowledge of Java (and similar languages) programming, and experience with scripting languages such as Python.

   Networking and security skills on Unix/Linux platforms.

   Strong knowledge of API and application design and architecture.

   Solid understanding of databases, storage and distributed persistence technologies.

   Experience with common monitoring and observability tools.

   Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), git, and  common IDEs such Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Intellij

   Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

   Must have strong analytical, written, and communications skills.

   BS or equivalent in computer science/engineering or relevant field preferred.

Career Level - IC5