Senior Data Engineer

Software Engineer Specializing In Data Engineering

We're looking for an experienced software engineer specializing in data engineering to join our growing team focused on building, supporting, and enhancing the OCI Data Center telemetry big data and analytics platform. This platform is at the heart of driving hardware quality, reliability, and efficiency as well as providing operational insights for impact and root cause analysis. We're strongly focused on supporting the high scale use cases of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). We provide self-service tools to enable data discovery, data processing, data mining and research, reporting, and machine learning/AI, all built using OCI services and industry standard open source distributed computing tools. The Data Engineer will get to work with data at scale. This includes ingesting and processing large data volumes of hardware telemetry from every machine in our Cloud data centers, both in batch and near-real time. This enables us to provide measurement & alerting on key hardware quality KPI trends, as well as using machine learning to predict hardware failures before they happen and improve the OCI service offerings and customer experience. We are looking for engineers who are creative, passionate about data and its application in building solutions, and are excited to work at scale to solve customer problems.

Responsibilities

A day in the life…

• Support the development and evolution of our Data Platform.
• Understand, leverage, and apply engineering best practices effectively. Lead by example and improve our coding standards and best practices.
• Build robust, highly available, performant, scalable, and reliable data services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, engineers, and program/product management on building optimized and forward looking data tools, insights and reporting mechanisms that drive the business forward.
• Deliver quality features on-time and on-budget.
• Anticipate system/application challenges and propose solutions.
• Contribute innovative and new ideas to the product/program roadmap.
• Mentor junior resources and drive end to end design, implementation, and delivery of engineering components.
• Work with team members to manage the day-to-day development activities, participate in designs, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation.
• Adjust positively to quickly changing priorities and shifting goals.
• Strive for continuous improvement of code quality and development practices.

Required Qualifications

4-6 years of professional experience in the practice area.

Excellent leadership, verbal, and written communication skills.

Proven high level of expertise in any or all of the programming languages Python, Java, Scala, SQL, and related technology stacks.

Knowledge & experience in big data technologies (Hadoop, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, etc.).

Knowledge & experience in data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, etc.

Deep proficiency in engineering best practices for the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Proven ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project.

Experience with cloud computing fundamentals and building applications using cloud managed services.

Willingness to adapt to and self learn new technologies and deliver on them.

Technical depth and vision to perform POCs and evaluate different technologies.

Additional Qualifications (not required, but each is a plus)

Prior experience building/working with ML platforms/frameworks & Gen-AI (RAG, Agents, etc).

Knowledge & experience of containerization technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes.

Prior experience building self-service data platforms.

Proven proficiency in API development (REST).

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: $79,800 to $178,100 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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• 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 - IC3

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