Job Description

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you with the opportunity to collaborate, build, and operate a suite of massive-scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best cloud products that meet the needs of our customers, who are tackling some of the world’s biggest opportunities.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. Our engineers have a significant technical and business impact at every level by designing and building innovative new systems to power our customers' business-critical applications.

As a member of the OCI for OpenSearch technologies like PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Cassandra, etc., you will have the unique opportunity to help realize the Oracle cloud vision of building the next-generation cloud from the ground up, as well as work with the latest PostgreSQL open-source project codebase. We value self-initiated systems engineers with a passion for learning, building, deploying, and operating infrastructure services globally and those who welcome the challenges at scale, all while being part of cloud operations with the autonomy to structure your own journey.

As an SDE on the PostgreSQL team, you will have the opportunity to:

• Design architectures and create a new service that operates reliably at an extremely large scale.

• Evaluate and improve the security of the deployed system.

• Identify the overall behavioral characteristics of the service and define and measure key performance indicators (KPIs)

• Utilize a deep understanding of the service to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.

This position combines systems engineering, automation engineering, and network operations. If you are a curious problem solver who values simplicity, is comfortable with ambiguity, and is excited to learn, you will be a great fit!

Career Level - IC2

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Use technologies like Kubernetes and Terraform to deploy and operate highly available, high-performance distributed systems.

• Automate tasks to enable continuous delivery and ensure continuous availability with minimal human overhead.

• Define and drive change management, continuous integration, and deployment best practices.

• Contribute to product roadmaps by identifying areas of need and engaging with stakeholders to scope work.

• Help create and maintain real-world production architectures, scalability, and system design.

• Define and document the technical architecture of complex and highly scalable products.

• Use a methodical approach to troubleshoot large, complex, interconnected systems.

• Participate in on-call rotations to provide optimal support for our mission-critical systems.

• Raise the bar for engineering best practices

Basic Qualifications:

• 1-4 years of experience with application development

• Strong distributed systems fundamentals

• Proficiency in any one modern language such as Java, Python, Ruby, Go. Java Preferred

• Experience in coding.

Preferred Qualifications

• Skilled in one or more of the following: PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, network architecture, application security

• Strong interest in participation and contribution to open-source projects

• Familiarity with several of the following technologies: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud), CI/CD systems (TeamCity/Jenkins), Docker, Linux (Oracle Linux/RedHat)

• Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills

• Comfortable in complex, rapidly evolving software development environments

• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.

• Ability to drive, follow, and evangelize cross-team processes.

• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills

• Experience running large-scale customer-facing web services.

• Experience using distributed source code management systems such as Git.

• Experience using ticket tracking systems such as JIRA.

• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.

• Experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments.

• Commitment to capturing and maintaining institutional knowledge.

• Government clearance is a plus.

About Us

Innovation starts with inclusion at Oracle. We are committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people can be themselves and do their best work. It’s when everyone’s voice is heard and valued, that we are inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. That’s why we need people with diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and abilities to help us create the future, and are proud to be an affirmative-action equal opportunity employer.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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: from $62,100 to $158,200 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.

About Us

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s problems. True innovation starts with diverse perspectives and various abilities and backgrounds.

When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.

We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by calling +1 888 404 2494, option one.

Disclaimer:

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer*. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

* Which includes being a United States Affirmative Action Employer