Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud Oracle s Cloud Infrastructure team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment Our customers run their businesses on our cloud and our mission is to provide them with outstanding compute storage networking database security and an ever growing set of foundational cloud-based services https www oracle com in cloud storage We re looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems virtualized infrastructure and highly available services If this is you at Oracle you can craft and build innovative new systems from the ground up These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast still at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact As a Principal Member of Technical Staff you 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 workplace and be excited to learn Minimum Qualifications 3 years experience delivering and operating large scale highly available distributed systems Solid understanding of Java experience with scripting languages such as Python Perl etc Solid understanding of data structures algorithms operating systems and distributed systems fundamentals Working familiarity with networking protocols TCP IP HTTP and standard network architectures Strong understanding of databases NoSQL systems storage and distributed persistence technologies Strong problem solving and performance tuning skills Experience working in storage domain is a strong plus As a member of the software engineering division you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems Work is non-routine and very sophisticated involving the application of advanced technical business skills in area of specialization Leading contributor individually and as a team member providing direction and mentoring to others BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area 8 years of software engineering or related experience