Job Description

The OCI Compute Control Plane service is responsible for provisioning and managing all bare metal and virtual machine compute instances and provides the foundation upon which OCI's cloud is built. The service must guarantee high availability and there are ever-increasing demands on scale and throughput. As OCI continues its rapid growth, we need a talented Consulting Member of Technical Staff to help evolve the service to handle the increased load. We are seeking a candidate that is passionate about solving complex scaling challenges in a highly distributed architecture. The candidate should possess strong operational skills to help lead triage and mitigation efforts for customer-impacting issues. You should be comfortable and proficient in working with stakeholders to clarify ambiguous requirements and design concrete solutions.


Major focus areas of software maintained by the team include:


Creating and maintaining highly available APIs for launching and managing Compute resources.


Designing and implementing highly scalable systems capable of functioning across numerous regions in a worldwide cloud footprint.


Building systems for orchestrating large-scale fleet management actions Decomposing large, monolithic codebases


A key focus of this job will be architecting and delivering automated CI/CD pipelines to ensure minimize human intervention and customer impact through proper blast radius control. The successful hire will have a passion for automation and preventing customer impact, but in the event operational issues arise, they will have the ability to quickly assess the impact and appropriate mitigation steps to restore service.


This position is expected to be onsite full time in Nashville, TN. This is not a remote position.

Responsibilities

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing, and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Qualifications:

10+ years experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.


Strong knowledge of Java and experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, etc.


Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence


Significant background architecting and implement CI/CD pipelines for large-scale distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP), standard network architectures, and Linux fundamentals