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Senior Software Developer

Oracle Database
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/28/2025
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team builds and manages a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

This is an opportunity to become a part of Observability, a core OCI team that has an impact on external and internal customers along with all other OCI cloud services!

Observability org of OCI is on a continued mission of delivering a world-class Integrated Observability and Management platform for our customers, that can work seamlessly across OCI, other clouds, and on-premises to provide a uniform view. Our integrated Observability and Management platform combines Logging, Monitoring, Auditing, SIEM, Events, and other services. We will continue to innovate on each of these services to make them feature-rich world-class services on their own and integrate them seamlessly to provide meaningful insights into your resources and data!

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve complex problems in distributed, highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. Our engineers have a significant technical and business impact at every level designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business-critical applications.

Career Level - IC3

Principal Member of Technical Staff - Observability and Developer Lifecycle, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for engineers with distributed systems expertise. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You’ve operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You will own projects and work on tasks independently while guiding other engineers in the team. The ideal candidate will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others.

What are the biggest challenges for the team?

The team is building brand new service features. The dynamic and fast growth of the business is driving us to build brand new innovative technologies. We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoff s, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution. We need engineers who can build services that can reliably protect our customer cloud environment. We need engineers who can figure out how we can keep up our solution in a fast pace to securely protect our customers.We need engineers who can build services that enable us to off er even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Cloud.

Required Qualifications

BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience

4-8 years of total experience in software development

Demonstrated ability to write great code using Java, C#, C or similar OO languages

Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle

Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure

Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one live site servicing

Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive

Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market-leading features and fl exibility to meet future business demands

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Kafka, Apache Spark, Lucene, Kubernetes and other big data technologies

Hands-on experience developing and maintaining services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure,Oracle)

Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) languages, preferably Terraform

Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL)

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.

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s challenges. We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40 years of change by operating with integrity.

We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and 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.

We’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.

Oracle 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. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Salary : $96,800 - $223,400

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