25 days ago
Base Salary
$115k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead significant distributed-systems initiatives from problem definition and architecture through implementation, rollout, adoption, and production validation.
- Design scalable, fault-tolerant services and mechanisms for throttling, load shedding, backpressure, caching, concurrency, and failure recovery.
- Write and review secure, maintainable, well-tested Java code and define service contracts, migration plans, validation strategies, and rollback criteria.
- Establish capacity models, performance objectives, metrics, alarms, dashboards, runbooks, load-testing plans, and deployment safeguards.
- Lead complex production incident investigations and turn recurring failures or manual procedures into automation and preventive engineering improvements.
- Provide architectural direction across routing, authentication, private connectivity, runtime performance, observability, and deployment infrastructure.
- Decompose broad initiatives, mentor engineers, raise engineering quality through reusable systems and standards, and contribute to hiring and roadmap planning.
- Align partner teams on technical decisions, responsibilities, dependencies, and rollout plans while communicating risks and tradeoffs clearly.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production backend or platform services.
- Strong development experience in Java or another modern object-oriented language.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, and production operations.
- Experience leading substantial technical initiatives across multiple engineers or teams.
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex production issues and improve service reliability.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes high-throughput and low-latency services, HTTP, networking, proxies, API gateways, authentication, authorization, TLS, certificates, private connectivity, multi-tenant security, throttling, load shedding, caching, capacity planning, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
Benefits
- Oracle offers medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, parental leave, and adoption assistance.
- Additional benefits include an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial planning, group legal services, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
- The posting states that the role generally accepts applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or while the job remains posted.
- The posting includes a U.S. hiring range of $114,600 to $234,600 per annum, with potential bonus, equity, and compensation deferral; compensation figures are excluded from benefits classification.
Tech Stack
About Oracle
Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.