2 months ago
Base Salary
$79k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement authoritative and recursive DNS data plane components for low-latency, high-throughput processing.
- Build and maintain production services and libraries using Go, C, Java, and/or Python.
- Optimize CPU, memory, and network I/O through concurrency models, event loops, socket tuning, and profiling.
- Own components end to end, including architecture, testing, rollout, observability, capacity planning, and operational health.
- Develop metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, dashboards, and on-call playbooks.
- Improve reliability through fault-tolerant design, graceful degradation, safe deployment practices, and proactive capacity planning.
- Partner with control plane, security, SRE, and operations teams on DNS platform improvements.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and engineering-standard improvements.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of operations engineering experience in SaaS, cloud, or hybrid-cloud environments.
- At least 5 years managing and operating large-scale, highly distributed service infrastructure.
- At least 3 years of hands-on Linux experience.
- Strong experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems and/or network services.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, C, Java, or Python, with the ability to work across languages.
- Understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals including TCP/UDP and sockets, concurrency, and performance profiling.
- Experience designing highly available systems and delivering safe production rollouts using canaries and feature flags.
- Deep DNS knowledge, including DNSSEC, EDNS(0), caching, zone transfers, rate limiting, and load balancing, is desired.
- Experience with high-performance patterns such as epoll/kqueue, asynchronous I/O, lock-free data structures, and packet processing is desired.
- Familiarity with DDoS mitigation, abuse protection, traffic engineering, Kubernetes, service meshes, network policies, and Terraform is desired.
- Experience with unit, integration, fuzzing, property-based, and chaos testing is desired.
- Experience operating mission-critical 24/7 services and using AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully is desired.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and AD&D insurance are provided.
- The benefits package includes flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Eligible employees receive paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
- Financial planning, group legal, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits are available.
- The posting states a US hiring range of $79,200 to $209,500 per annum, with possible bonus and equity eligibility.
- The role generally accepts applications for at least three calendar days from posting or while the job remains posted.
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.