23 days 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 in Go, C, Java, and/or Python.
- Optimize CPU, memory, and network I/O performance through concurrency models, event loops, socket tuning, and profiling.
- Own data plane components across architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, observability, capacity planning, and production health.
- Develop metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, dashboards, runbooks, and on-call practices.
- Improve reliability through fault-tolerant design, graceful degradation, safe deployments, and proactive capacity planning.
- Partner with control-plane, security, SRE, and operations teams on end-to-end DNS platform improvements.
- Provide technical leadership through design 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 of experience 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 and interest to work across languages.
- Strong 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 RFCs, EDNS(0), DNSSEC, caching, zone transfers, rate limiting, and load balancing, is desirable.
- Experience with high-performance patterns such as epoll/kqueue, asynchronous I/O, low-lock or lock-free data structures, and packet processing is desirable.
- Familiarity with DDoS mitigation, abuse protection, traffic engineering, containers, Kubernetes, service meshes, network policies, and Terraform is desirable.
- Experience with unit and integration testing, fuzzing, property-based testing, chaos testing, and operating 24/7 mission-critical services is desirable.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools with strong engineering judgment, code-quality, ownership, and security standards is desirable.
Benefits
- US hiring range is $79,200 to $209,500 per annum, with possible bonus and equity eligibility.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, 401(k) matching, paid time off, paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, an employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, group legal benefits, and voluntary insurance benefits.
- The role is generally open for at least three calendar days from the posting date or while the posting remains active.
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.