{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"38fa86b00835560dc8ef2d1a","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/38fa86b00835560dc8ef2d1a","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/38fa86b00835560dc8ef2d1a","title":"Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Performance","description":"Job Description\r\n*This position is based onsite in Nashville, TN\r\nOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more.\r\nAt Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We're embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as building new innovative platforms, high performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and new container runtime that will allow us to run the full variety of OCI services, including our most demanding, high-performance, high-availability services. We're also working on new ingenuities such as providing canonical implementation of core components for data planes through a data-plane runtime framework, developing a remote persistent storage solution with the latency and performance comparable to that of a local nVME drive, and developing standards and tools to identify critical performance improvements across OCI data-planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating our expertise on building low level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI.\r\nAs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our newly established Cloud Performance Organization. This team plays a key role in addressing service inefficiencies, reducing cloud expenses, improving customer experience, and ensuring scalability. Your work will focus on optimizing the performance of OCI's critical components, internal tools, and applications while fostering a culture of performance engineering.\r\nThis is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new cloud services from the ground up. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.\r\nWho are we looking for?\r\nYou have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You've built and operated high-scale public cloud services and have deep understanding of control plane architecture. You work on most projects and tasks independently and extend technical leadership to development teams.\r\nIn this role, you will enable development teams by driving design of major service components, working with engineering managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to more junior team members. You can go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping.\r\nYou are technically strong and get a lot done. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You've made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument your service. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus.\r\nCareer Level - IC4\r\nResponsibilities\r\nKey responsibilities\r\n\r\n\r\nEvaluate the performance of cloud services, identify inefficiencies, and design cost-effective solutions.\r\n\r\n\r\nAnalyze and optimize internal tools, processes, and developer workflows to enhance operational efficiency.\r\n\r\n\r\nBenchmark OCI services against competitors and identify performance improvement opportunities.\r\n\r\n\r\nCollaborate with service teams to integrate performance evaluation tools into CI/CD pipelines.\r\n\r\n\r\nQuantify and communicate the financial impact of inefficiencies, linking performance data to business metrics.\r\n\r\n\r\nDevelop and implement improvements in shared components, libraries, and runtime configurations (e.g., Java runtime, SDKs, and images).\r\n\r\n\r\nQualifications\r\n\r\n\r\n5 to 10 years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment\r\n\r\n\r\nDevelopment experience in a modern programming language, such as Java, C++, C#\r\n\r\n\r\nHands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service control or data planes\r\n\r\n\r\nHands-on experience in software performance profiling, analysis, and optimization.\r\n\r\n\r\nDeep understanding of object-oriented design and SDK development, specifically within a cloud environment\r\n\r\n\r\nExperience working closely with architects, principals, product, and program managers to deliver product features on time and with high quality.\r\n\r\n\r\nGood knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.\r\n\r\n\r\nWorking familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.\r\n\r\n\r\nGood understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.\r\n\r\n\r\nGood understanding of Linux administration and networking stack configuration\r\n\r\n\r\nDemonstrable technical leadership and mentorship skills\r\n\r\n\r\nFamiliarity with JVM and benchmarking tools.\r\n\r\n\r\nPreferred Qualifications\r\n\r\n\r\nBS degree in Computer Science or related field (MS preferred)\r\n\r\n\r\nHands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)\r\n\r\n\r\nExperience driving security reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers from inception through launch\r\n\r\n\r\nBuilding continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules\r\n\r\n\r\nProven experience in performance optimization of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.\r\n\r\n\r\nDisclaimer\r\nCertain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.\r\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\r\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.\r\nOracle 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.\r\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\r\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following\r\n\r\n\r\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\r\n\r\n\r\nShort term disability and long term disability\r\n\r\n\r\nLife insurance and AD&D\r\n\r\n\r\nSupplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\r\n\r\n\r\nHealth care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\r\n\r\n\r\nPre-tax commuter and parking benefits\r\n\r\n\r\n401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\r\n\r\n\r\nPaid 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.\r\n\r\n\r\n11 paid holidays\r\n\r\n\r\nPaid 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.\r\n\r\n\r\nPaid parental leave\r\n\r\n\r\nAdoption assistance\r\n\r\n\r\nEmployee Stock Purchase Plan\r\n\r\n\r\nFinancial planning and group legal\r\n\r\n\r\nVoluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\r\n\r\n\r\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\r\nCareer Level - IC4\r\nAbout Us\r\nOnly Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.\r\nTrue innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.\r\nWe'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 emailing accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.\r\nOracle 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. 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Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more.\r\nAt Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We're embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as building new innovative platforms, high performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and new container runtime that will allow us to run the full variety of OCI services, including our most demanding, high-performance, high-availability services. We're also working on new ingenuities such as providing canonical implementation of core components for data planes through a data-plane runtime framework, developing a remote persistent storage solution with the latency and performance comparable to that of a local nVME drive, and developing standards and tools to identify critical performance improvements across OCI data-planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating our expertise on building low level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI.\r\nAs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our newly established Cloud Performance Organization. This team plays a key role in addressing service inefficiencies, reducing cloud expenses, improving customer experience, and ensuring scalability. Your work will focus on optimizing the performance of OCI's critical components, internal tools, and applications while fostering a culture of performance engineering.\r\nThis is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new cloud services from the ground up. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.\r\nWho are we looking for?\r\nYou have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You've built and operated high-scale public cloud services and have deep understanding of control plane architecture. You work on most projects and tasks independently and extend technical leadership to development teams.\r\nIn this role, you will enable development teams by driving design of major service components, working with engineering managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to more junior team members. You can go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping.\r\nYou are technically strong and get a lot done. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You've made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument your service. 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May be eligible for bonus and equity.\r\nOracle 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.\r\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\r\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following\r\n\r\n\r\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\r\n\r\n\r\nShort term disability and long term disability\r\n\r\n\r\nLife insurance and AD&D\r\n\r\n\r\nSupplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\r\n\r\n\r\nHealth care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\r\n\r\n\r\nPre-tax commuter and parking benefits\r\n\r\n\r\n401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\r\n\r\n\r\nPaid 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.\r\n\r\n\r\n11 paid holidays\r\n\r\n\r\nPaid 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.\r\n\r\n\r\nPaid parental leave\r\n\r\n\r\nAdoption assistance\r\n\r\n\r\nEmployee Stock Purchase Plan\r\n\r\n\r\nFinancial planning and group legal\r\n\r\n\r\nVoluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\r\n\r\n\r\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\r\nCareer Level - IC4\r\nAbout Us\r\nOnly Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.\r\nTrue innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.\r\nWe'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 emailing accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.\r\nOracle 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. 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