Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff - Security Products Group
Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development
Location: Seattle or Redwood Shores (CA), with preference for Seattle. This is a hybrid position with a couple of days a week in the office.
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of substantial 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.We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications.
What is Security Products Group at OCI?
OCI Security Products Group is building comprehensive product portfolios to protect customers’ cloud environments with innovative approaches and hyperscale efficiency. Our core security pillars are: customer isolation, data encryption, security controls, visibility. Our vision is to build the most secure cloud environment for our customers to build their applications confidently on top of OCI. We are making strategic decision to heavily invest on detecting system vulnerabilities and threat activities, correlate and analyze problems, then remediate, notify and block attacks from malicious actors against customer cloud environment.
We offer a rich set of services to help our customer to secure their data, flexible access to their environment, detect the vulnerabilities and treats in their environment, source code, applications and containers, take remediations to protect customers based on the industry best practice such as CVE and CIS. Our solutions will ensure customers confidently build their business in Oracle Cloud.
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/products.html
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for engineers with distributed systems experience. 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 have the ability to drive projects and tasks independently as well as provide technical leadership for development teams. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances but have to abide by compliance and regulations.
The ideal candidate will be technically strong and get a lot done – you’ve worked on services that are highly available, scalable, and redundant. You understand that simple systems are easier to operate and troubleshoot. 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 properly to get the right data. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of being proactive with your teammates. You proactively find anomalies in graphs that didn’t trip any alarms and root cause problems before they become real problems.
The person in this role will get a lot done on a daily basis, drive tactical execution of features and projects, and own feature design.
What are the biggest challenges for the team?
Reliability, performance and keeping up with our increasing customer adoption. The dynamic and fast growth of the business is driving us to improve the ability of our systems to scale out and handle traffic patterns with full coverage that are several orders of magnitude greater than what we can support today.
We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, 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 offer even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Cloud.
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment. Experience driving architecture & functional reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers through the entire launch process. Hands-on experience building and operating entire systems and services. Strong development experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar OO languages Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies Experience providing technical leadership. Ability to implement or lead multiple key-projects in parallel. High verbal & written communication skills
Additional Preferred Qualifications
Career Level - IC5