Principal Software Developer

Job Description

The Virtual Networking Gateways team is looking for engineers with willingness and ability to deep dive into any part of the networking stack. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact. Join our team and help us build state-of-the-art Virtual Networking solutions.

Why join OCI Networking?

The OCI Networking organization values a collaborative culture where team members support each other to ensure a smooth onboarding and ramp-up experience. Our priorities include delivering exceptional customer experiences, building scalable architectures, maintaining manageable operations, and minimizing technical debt. We emphasize a balanced on-call rotation and a healthy work/life balance. Our team is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the OCI Software Defined Network (SDN) stack. We are seeking hands-on engineers with expertise and a passion for tackling challenging problems in high-availability systems, virtual networking, and high-throughput, low-latency network packet processing. With rapid growth and numerous innovative projects underway, this is an exciting time to join our team.

Qualifications

You are a programmer with networking experience. You value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and are excited to learn.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters / PhD degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields ;
• 5 years of experience with systems/application development
• Proficient with data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• Software-based packet forwarding experience, Core packet processing (CPP)
• Familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures
• Familiarity with High Availability(HA), messaging, State replication
• Proficient at programming C/C++;, Python, GoLang
• Solid understanding of Linux networking constructs
• Experience working with various Network Virtualization technologies
• Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with kernel offload libraries like DPDK
• Experience designing and developing for scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability
• Experience providing technical leadership for customer facing features
• Experience with developing fault-tolerant systems
• Experience owning production backend services
• Experience in Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Responsibilities

As a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the team, you will

• Drive design of the features and be responsible for delivering high-speed packet processing architectures and other distributed systems that provide networking features such as TCP/UDP packet processing, access controls, metrics and monitoring dashboards.
• Drive operational readiness & excellence.
• Mentor new hires, and where appropriate, provide technical leadership to the team.
• Collaborate on identifying and mitigating risks in the project.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC4

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