About this role

Owns feature areas with measurable business impact. Designs application services and schemas spanning Online Transaction Processing and Online Analytical Processing, JSON, spatial, and graph data models. Leads debugging across services and database layers; optimizes query and API performance to meet service-level agreements. Drives automated testing coverage and performance baselines; collaborates with product management and user experience to run experiments and analyze adoption and retention.

Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Design, develop, and deploy software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle products and services. Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems. Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.

Oracle Exadata Database team is building a new cloud native, Autonomous, multi-tenant, database optimized, smart storage cloud service. This service is expected to scale across thousands of tenants. It is based on the successful Exadata platform. This cost effective storage solution is engineered for highest performance and availability to run variety of workloads. We are hiring senior developers for this exciting team to build the service to power Autonomous database offerings in Oracle Cloud and Cloud at customer.

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. As part of the Oracle Database Exadata team, you will be continually challenged and have an opportunity to contribute. The role provides a mixture of production ownership and development. You will solve challenging technical problems, identify improvements and work on implementing your recommendations.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of hands on experience in software development, including design, implementation, debugging, and support, building distributed, scalable system software and/or Services preferably in the cloud

- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

- Proficient with programming languages Java/Python; and scripting languages (Shell, Perl and Python)

- Deep understanding of distributed systems and web services technology

- Experienced in crafting, building and debugging large scale distributed systems

- Strong at applying data structures, algorithms, and object oriented design, to solve challenging problems

- Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems

- Familiar with micro-services based software architecture and the evolving tools in the space like nomad/k8s

- Experience with container run time (Docker, LXC/LXD)

- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations

- Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

- Systematic problem solving approach, combined with a strong sense of ownership and drive.

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, product strategy and influence outcomes in technical decision-making

- Solid understanding of performance and efficiency with a strong customer focus

- Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers in all aspects of their engineering skillsets

- Possess strong verbal and written communication skills

Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
11 years of experience in software development

Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development

Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development

Job Skills:
Same skills as prior level plus;
Data Analysis Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data to produce actionable business insights.
Agile Methodologies Demonstrated ability to use agile methodologies to drive continuous improvement and product delivery.
Automation Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of automation, including designing, implementing, and managing automated tools, processes, or systems to streamline operations.
Compliance Demonstrated knowledge of and adherence to regulatory, legal, and organizational compliance requirements.
Quality Assurance Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of quality assurance, including ensuring adherence to standards and implementing quality control measures.
Scripting Languages Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of scripting languages, including writing and maintaining scripts to improve system efficiency.
Software Test Plans Demonstrated ability to develop and execute effective software test plans to validate product quality.
User Experience Development Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of user experience development, including designing intuitive and effective user interfaces and content.
Code Review Demonstrated ability to conduct in-depth code reviews for software quality assurance.
Embedded Systems Demonstrated ability to develop embedded systems, balancing hardware and software for optimal performance.
Software Estimation Demonstrated ability to provide accurate software effort and complexity estimates for project planning and scheduling.

Coding Experience:
6 years of experience with programming and/or scripting languages (e.g., SQL, C/C++, JavaScript).

Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
11 years of experience in software development

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software development.
Budget Experience:
1 year of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
Cloud Platforms Experience:
3 years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).