Principal Software Development Engineer (SDE) 4

Software Development Engineer

GDI Sovereign Cloud is a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people that are focused on bringing the world's most important work to our government customers. We build and operate our government, classified, and sovereign cloud regions to be reliable and high-performance, just like our public cloud. Our customers and their mission are the center of what we do. We strive to improve our knowledge of the challenges our customers face which we use to enhance our cloud capabilities and work together to deliver their mission. The Automation for Sovereign Cloud (ASC) team is a SecDevOps Team focused specifically on providing automated solutions and integrations for Sovereign Realms. Our team leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) best practices to develop scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Sov Realms have unique challenges which require unique solutions to provide a seamless customer interaction between commercial and other realms. This is where our team thrives, providing the connective tissues and purpose-built solutions. We are seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE) to join ASC team within the Oracle Government Defense Intelligence (GDI) division.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Design: Lead the design and architecture of microservices that support distributed systems, handling data egress and integration between multiple realms.
• Build Distributed Systems: Develop and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure distributed systems to support real-time data processing for analytics platforms.
• Coding: Leverages industry best practices to write correct, secure, maintainable, robust code and appropriate tests. Drives design of their features & subsystems.
• Data Pipeline Optimization: Create efficient and resilient data egress pipelines, ensuring seamless data flow and aggregation across OCI realms.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, product managers, and DevOps teams, to ensure alignment with business goals and infrastructure needs.
• Problem Solving: Identify bottlenecks, optimize performance, and troubleshoot issues within distributed systems and data flows.
• Mentorship and Leadership: Operating independently, you mentor junior engineers, promoting best practices in software engineering, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Operations: Trusted to serve as Tier2 or specialized escalation point for operations events. Leads deep dives into events during calls and in support of root cause analysis (CAPA). Serves as primary point of contact for resolving complex operations issues. Develops new metrics and dashboards to improve situational awareness. Leads operational assessments for complex systems ensuring operational issues and potential failure modes are accounted for. Participates in cross-organizational programs incl. CAPA, ECAR and region builds together guidance, standards and best practices for operations, resiliency and availability.
• Innovation and Improvement: Stay updated on industry trends and innovations in cloud architecture, distributed systems, and data engineering to continuously improve our services.

Basic Qualifications:

• Position requires a U.S. Citizenship while possessing and maintaining a TS/SCI eligibility with poly required
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience
• 8-10 years of total experience in software development
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations) up to organizational leadership
• Demonstratable programming/software skills in Python/Java/GO/Rust, strong software development experience through hands on coding, and unit tests
• Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed, global cloud services infrastructure (compute instances, IAM, networking, storage, databases, etc) for mission-critical tier-one services
• Thorough understanding of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis, SDLC, secure coding
• Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in a single area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market-leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields
• 3+ years experience with building on OCI
• 3+ years experience as a technical lead/architect
• Strong knowledge of Computer Networking (OSI layers, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, Routers, Gateways, Subnets, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals, Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills, security
• Familiarity with host virtualization technologies (KVM, Containers, Docker, etc.)
• Prior industrial experience in data science/AI/ML, experience in automating operational tasks

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:

• 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 - IC4

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