Senior Software Engineer

Oracle
UK
13 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
4 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) JIRA Cloud Computing Continuous Availability Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration Linux DevOps Distributed Systems Monitoring of Systems Integrated Development Environments NoSQL
+12 more
Cloud Services Software Engineering SQL Databases Backend Gitlab Kubernetes Information Technology Restful APIs Terraform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Docker Programming Languages

Job description

Work with OCI product leaders and service teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications. Design, develop and troubleshoot scalable, operationally focused, customer-facing cloud services. Automate common tasks to enable continuous delivery and ensure continuous availability with minimal human overhead. Drive performant, scalable, and forward-thinking solutions to completion on time. Maintain both development and production infrastructure as part of a customer-focused engineering culture with operational excellence. Provide technical guidance and constructive feedback to leadership, team members, and other stakeholders. Contribute to product roadmaps by identifying areas of need and engaging with stakeholders to scope work. Mentor and coach junior members in the team. Raise the bar for engineering quality and best practices.

Requirements

As an ideal candidate, you will have knowledge of large-scale services in a distributed cloud environment. In addition, you will have an understanding of Linux fundamentals and will combine this knowledge with your hands-on experience in software development. You will champion creating an engineering environment that embodies the best development and testing practices for delivering secure, scalable, and highly available services. You should work comfortably in a collaborative, remote, and agile environment, and be excited to learn., 4+ years of experience in the software industry working on architecture, system and software design, development and delivery of highly scalable products and services. Bachelor’s degree or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent education. In-depth understanding of the entire product development lifecycle including writing technical specification, assisting to make product impacting decisions, designing world-class services, developing and reviewing code, driving DevOps, leading releases and operations. Ability to identify opportunities for innovation, aim to be on top of tech-debt, plan for continuous improvements in technology and operations and maintain a solid security posture. Strong verbal and written communication, organization, and interpersonal skills. Comfort with complex, rapidly evolving software development environments. Ability to learn new technologies quickly. Strong back-end development experience in Java or other similar modern programming language. Strong experience in microservice-based architecture, distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases, REST APIs and Cloud technologies. Good grip over CI/CD process and tools such as GitLab, JIRA, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, etc. Previous experience with system monitoring, automation and incident management tools is preferable.

About the company

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team builds and operates massive-scale, integrated cloud services in a distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best cloud products that meet the needs of our customers, who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to help us build high-performance API services that secure and protect API traffic at OCI., Only 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.

True 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.

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 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.

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