Software Developer 3
Oracle · Seattle, WA · 5 days ago
Engineering$79k–$210k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and evolution of foundational cloud infrastructure services that manage critical control-plane metadata and state for large-scale OCI services.
- Architect and build highly available, strongly consistent, low-latency distributed systems with a focus on correctness, durability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Drive major technical initiatives across the full lifecycle, from architecture and implementation to safe rollout, production operations, and continuous improvement.
- Improve service scalability, performance, and predictability through better data-plane architecture, transaction processing, caching, throttling, capacity planning, and failure recovery.
- Build and operate resilient multi-tenant systems with strong observability, automation, alarms, dashboards, deployment safety, and incident prevention mechanisms.
- Mentor engineers, raise the engineering bar through design and code reviews, and establish best practices for distributed systems, production readiness, and operational excellence.
Qualifications
- Deep expertise and passion for distributed systems, databases, storage infrastructure, transaction processing, and highly available services.
- Experience in designing and building highly available, strongly consistent, low-latency distributed systems.
- Strong background in software development, with a focus on system design, performance optimization, and reliability.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and drive projects from conception to production.
- Experience with cloud platforms and services, particularly those related to storage and database management.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Strong communication and mentoring skills, able to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes:
- 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.
- 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