2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement authoritative and recursive DNS data-plane components for low-latency, high-throughput processing.
- Build services and libraries in Go, C, Java, or Python and optimize CPU, memory, network I/O, concurrency, event loops, sockets, and performance.
- Own components end to end through architecture, implementation, testing, rollout, observability, capacity planning, and production operations.
- Develop metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and on-call playbooks.
- Improve reliability through fault-tolerant design, graceful degradation, safe deployments, and proactive capacity planning.
- Collaborate with control plane, security, SRE, and operations teams on DNS platform improvements.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and engineering-standard improvements.
- Drive performance, reliability, security, and operational improvements for mission-critical production services.
Requirements
- Requires 5-8+ years of experience building, managing, or operating large-scale distributed infrastructure in SaaS, cloud, or hybrid-cloud environments.
- Requires 3+ years of hands-on Linux experience and strong experience with production-grade distributed systems or network services.
- Requires proficiency in one or more of Go, C, Java, or Python and knowledge of Linux systems, networking, TCP/UDP, sockets, concurrency, and performance profiling.
- Requires experience designing highly available systems and delivering safe production rollouts using canaries, progressive deployments, or feature flags.
- Requires strong ownership, technical judgment, and ability to resolve complex problems.
- Minimum qualifications allow 8 years of software development experience, or a relevant bachelor's degree plus 4 years, master's degree plus 2 years, or a doctorate.
- Requires 2 years of professional cloud-platform experience, 3 years of system-level testing and automation, and 2 years working with large-scale distributed systems.
- Requires knowledge or ability in distributed systems, prototyping, computer science programming, software engineering, web development, vulnerability mitigation, operating systems, API development and integration, algorithms, and source control.
- Preferred qualifications include deep DNS knowledge, high-performance systems patterns, DDoS mitigation, traffic engineering, Kubernetes, Terraform, comprehensive testing, 24/7 service operations, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Preferred qualifications also include the listed software-development education and experience alternatives and cloud-platform experience.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits including flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options.
- Volunteer programs supporting employee community involvement.
- Equal employment opportunity and disability accommodation support.
- The posting does not state a work arrangement, contract duration, or compensation.
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.