Senior / Principal Software Engineer

About team :

An Oracle Database High Availability (HA) team is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing solutions that ensure continuous operation and minimize downtime of Oracle databases. This team utilizes a range of Oracle technologies and best practices to achieve high availability and disaster recovery objectives.

This team has a unique opportunity to create software architectures that fundamentally changes the way businesses innovate, work and adopt technology. Unlike traditional clouds that offer bare-bones virtual Linux machines, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the entire Oracle Product stack : applications, middleware, database, servers, and storage - across multiple data centers worldwide. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure hosts business-critical applications that must withstand all outages and still scale to service customers worldwide. Oracle leverages hardware and software to remove the limitations of technology and creates fully integrated, agile, intelligent business applications across social, mobile, cloud and big data technologies. The High Availability Systems team (MAA, Maximum Availability Architecture Group) is leading these key initiatives at Oracle.

Your Role :

As a Senior / Principal Software Developer with the High Availability Systems team, you have the opportunity to architect the next generation of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions aimed at providing comprehensive recovery from any kind of server, software, storage, and data center outages. Our solutions address all known technical limitations of software architectures. The requirements are driven by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure which is one of the most innovative and fastest growing business segments at Oracle.

If you are a talented and motivated software engineer / architect with ideas and interests on how to smartly build resiliency and disaster recovery capabilities for the new generation of public cloud services, this is a perfect opportunity for you.

Ideal Candidate Persona :

The ideal candidate will exhibit strong technical skills and experience in several of the following areas. Demonstration of clear expertise in some key areas is critical to succeed in this role

1. Excellent Java, cloud native programming and problem-solving skills

2. Experience with cloud native microservices architectures is a plus

3. Around 5-15 years of solid industry experience in software development

4. Design and implement scalable distributed systems in cloud across the breadth of technical stack (Compute, Networking, Storage, Containers, Web tier, Middle tier, RDBMS, Virtualization)

5. Strong experience or interest in High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery, Cloning, Clustering, Storage Replication technologies, Enterprise Deployments, Infrastructure Manageability and designing complex systems addressing consistency and availability in highly distributed deployments

6. Hands on experience with Unix / Linux

7. Strong software engineering, debugging and analytical skills

8. Experience in any of the following scripting languages (Python, Perl, Shell)

9. Excellent communication skills and experience in working with cross functional teams

10. Prior experience in building enterprise class software products involved in mission critical deployments