Software Developer 5

Join the team building Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's state-of-the-art observability platform, powering visibility and operational intelligence for both OCI's internal cloud services and customers running mission-critical workloads on OCI. OCI Monitoring and Logging serve as foundational platforms used by OCI engineering teams to operate and troubleshoot hundreds of cloud services while also enabling customers to monitor, analyze, and gain insights into their own applications and infrastructure. This unique position offers the opportunity to build observability solutions that operate at massive scale, serving the demanding needs of OCI's own services as well as a global customer base.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and operation of cloud-scale observability platforms supporting metrics, logs, traces, and related telemetry data.
• Architect and implement highly scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient telemetry collection, ingestion, processing, storage, and query systems.
• Drive the evolution of end-to-end observability pipelines, from instrumentation and data collection through real-time analytics and long-term retention.
• Design and optimize distributed systems capable of ingesting and processing massive volumes of telemetry data with stringent latency and availability requirements.
• Develop scalable storage and indexing solutions for high-cardinality metrics, large-scale log analytics, and distributed tracing workloads.
• Build and enhance query, search, and retrieval services that deliver fast, reliable, and intuitive access to observability data.
• Collaborate with product management, architects, SREs, and engineering teams to define and deliver next-generation observability capabilities.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across the observability stack, including ingestion, storage, indexing, aggregation, and query execution.
• Design systems with a strong focus on reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
• Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions for observability services operating at hyperscale cloud environments.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers, provide technical leadership, and foster engineering best practices across the organization.
• Partner with service teams to improve instrumentation, telemetry quality, and operational visibility across cloud services.
• Establish and monitor key service health, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency metrics for observability platforms.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis efforts for complex distributed systems and large-scale production environments.
• Stay current with emerging trends, technologies, and best practices in observability, distributed systems, data processing, and cloud-native architectures.

Requirements

• B.S, M.S, or Ph.D in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of experience in the industry
• Programming languages: Java, Go, C, C++, Python
• Experience working with the following:
  • Cloud-scale products and services
  • Multi-tenant services
  • Concurrent programming
  • Open-source technologies for development and management
  • Cloud technologies
  • Full product/service development and operations lifecycle
• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Able to adapt to fast-changing requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with designing and developing Observability Solutions (metrics, logs, traces)
• Experience with tools such as Terraform
• Performance, scalability, reliability, and recovery of large-scale distributed systems

Certain U.S.-based or U.S. customer/client-facing roles may require compliance with applicable immunization, occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing.

Pay

US: Hiring range in USD from $135,200 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• 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 for salaried employees
  • Accrued Vacation for other eligible employees (13 days annually for the first three years, 18 days annually thereafter; prorated for 20-34 hours/week; not eligible for fewer than 20 hours/week)
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon date of hire, refreshes each calendar year, carries over 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