Software Engineer   (Cape Town, South Africa)

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organisation is responsible for developing key services that power Oracle's cloud solutions across all layers of the IaaS/SaaS/PaaS stack. Our primary focus areas are scale, performance and reliability.

We can provide you with the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing best of breed cloud products that meet the needs of our large enterprise customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

OCI Cape Town is currently looking for hands-on and passionate engineers. We are developing solutions to complex problems that directly impact Oracle’s customers. Currently this involves developing solutions to support the automated migration of Oracle's customer IaaS workloads between datacentres in a way that minimises customer interruption. The team strives to provide a "it just works" experience for these problems. We collaborate directly with teams in Canada and the United States.

Join our friendly distributed team working in a collaborative, remote first culture to build a globally impacting product. All OCI Cape Town employees work from home.

We are looking for passionate software engineers at all levels who

• Can rapidly develop production level code, keeping scalability and robustness in mind
• Have a solid grounding in computer science fundamentals, who can easily pick up a new programming language
• Enjoy working in an innovative and collaborative environment
• Can do operational support on an on-call roster basis including
• Hands-on operational support for product issues escalated to the development team by the front line operations teams
• Monitoring operational support slack channels and health dashboards
• Providing insightful troubleshooting and optimal solutions based on a deep understanding of the product

What you need as a minimum
BSc in Computer Science or similar degree (or commensurate experience with a proven track record)
Experience with scripting and non-scripting programming languages (Python and Java preferred)
An ability to demonstrate logical thinking, decisiveness and drive in taking on and completing tasks
 
Plus preferred experiences that we are looking for

• Senior candidates are expected to demonstrate more of these skills than less experienced candidates.
• Software development experience with distributed, highly scalable, multi-node environments
• Strong understanding of virtual machine technologies, networking and storage systems
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
• Extensive Linux experience, both command-line and system level knowledge
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc

Example Responsibilities:

• Design and develop Java based microservices with REST APIs
• Design and develop python based operational tooling
• Develop playbooks and runbooks to support process automation
• Implement and analyse service metrics to drive service improvements
• Set a high quality bar for services right from the design stage through to production e.g. end to end testing, monitoring and alerting.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering team, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have a project lead role and/or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).