Principal Java Developer - Santa Clara, CA

Job Description

Who are we?

Oracle Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) brings the power and versatility of the Oracle Database to the cloud. As a service offering built on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it integrates award winning Oracle database technologies such as the Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) making them available to customers of all stripes both for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) as well as Data Warehousing workloads.

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What do we do?

The Oracle DBaaS group builds and operates Oracle's DBaaS service offering on top of a massive fleet of highly available, enterprise grade baremetal, virtual machine and exadata infrastructure.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for hands-on software engineers with a passion to solve interesting problems in distributed systems and high availability. You will own the software design, development and deployment of various critical components of the system and also help mentor/lead a team of experienced engineers. You should be hands-on with the ability to dig deeper into any part of the stack while also having the ability to look at the big picture and make engineering decisions. You should also be able to apply those fundamentals to real-world problems and come up with specialized solutions.

Qualifications:

* 5+ years of experience in delivering and managing highly scalable and highly available distributed systems.
* Strong knowledge of JAVA and object oriented programming is required.
* Strong knowledge of microservices, design pattern and databases.
* Good understanding of operating systems, virtualization and containers.
* Strong knowledge in data structures, algorithms and computer science fundamentals.
* Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills at all levels of the stack.
* Ability to quickly respond to any alerts/incidents and provide initial triage or efficiently raise to Operations staff.
* Bachelors degree or equivalent experience as a software engineer/developer.

Responsibilities

As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

* Participate in the design and architecture of large scale Distributed DBaaS Service features
* Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Oracle DBaaS service.
* Participate in research and prototyping (proof of concept) different aspect of Oracle DBaaS service
* Solve complex and difficult problems and build automation to prevent them from happening again
* Participate in DBaaS service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
* Participate in periodic on call duties

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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