Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more. As Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our newly established Cloud Performance Organization. This team plays a key role in addressing service inefficiencies, reducing cloud expenses, improving customer experience, and ensuring scalability. Your work will focus on optimizing the performance of OCI's critical components, internal tools, and applications while fostering a culture of performance engineering. This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new cloud services from the ground up. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged. Who Are We Looking For? You have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You've built and operated high-scale public cloud services and have deep understanding of control plane architecture. You work on most projects and tasks independently and extend technical leadership to development teams. In this role, you will enable development teams by driving design of major service components, working with engineering managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to more junior team members. You can go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping. You are technically strong and get a lot done. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You've made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument your service. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of high quality and customer focus. Responsibilities Key responsibilities include: evaluating the performance of cloud services, identifying inefficiencies, and designing cost-effective solutions; analyzing and optimizing internal tools, processes, and developer workflows to enhance operational efficiency; benchmarking OCI services against competitors and identifying performance improvement opportunities; collaborating with service teams to integrate performance evaluation tools into CI/CD pipelines; quantifying and communicating the financial impact of inefficiencies, linking performance data to business metrics; developing and implementing improvements in shared components, libraries, and runtime configurations. Qualifications: 5 to 10 years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment; development experience in a modern programming language; hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service control or data planes; hands-on experience in software performance profiling, analysis, and optimization; deep understanding of object-oriented design and SDK development, specifically within a cloud environment; experience working closely with architects, principals, product, and program managers; good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals; working familiarity with networking protocols and standard network architectures; good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies; good understanding of Linux administration and networking stack configuration; demonstrable technical leadership and mentorship skills; familiarity with JVM and benchmarking tools. Preferred Qualifications: BS degree in Computer Science or related field; hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform; experience driving security reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers from inception through launch; building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules; proven experience in performance optimization of cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. Disclaimer: Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only. US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion; short term disability and long term disability; life insurance and AD&D supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child); health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts; pre-tax commuter and parking benefits; 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match; paid time off; 11 paid holidays; paid sick leave; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; Employee Stock Purchase Plan; financial planning and group legal; voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance. The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law.