Job Description:

Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is a converged architecture of software, compute, networking, and storage, optimized and engineered to offer performance and scale for Oracle Databases and applications. Thousands of ODA deployments are used by enterprise customers to run their business critical Oracle databases and applications.

Next generation of ODA software will scale out manage a pool of ODA systems, and will be the primary infrastructure piece for ODA based private and hybrid cloud environments. It will help provision and manage compute, network, storage, and virtual machines seamlessly on a pool of ODA servers. It will also help deploy software, be it databases or applications in the private cloud. Complemented by efficient command line tools and UI, ODA private cloud based solutions will provide flexibility and high resource utilization to enterprises looking to deploy databases and applications in a secure, easy-to-manage, and cost effective private cloud environments.

We are looking for self-motivated candidates who can develop robust software to manage core infrastructure pieces on ODA. An ideal candidate should have a solid systems software development background and grasp of OS, database, and clustering concepts.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop solutions for upcoming releases of ODA.
• Conceptualize, design, and implement new features on the ODA platform for private clouds.
• Maintain existing code and work with test and support teams to fix defects.
• Provide technical guidance to other team members.

Required Skills and Experience:

• B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science or related fields. M.S. or PhD is a plus.
• Three to ten years of work experience.
• Proficiency in Java
• Java Concurrency: multi-threading, locking, synchronization free concurrency implementation, Java concurrency patterns, etc
• Java Tuning and Debugging: general Java tuning, multi-threaded performance consideration, sophisticated online debugging, heap dump analysis
• Implementation and integration of RESTful APIs
• Advanced Java Experience: hierarchical class loaders, runtime class loading, reflection APIs, use of generics in API design
• Java + Database: core JDBC experience, ORM persistence frameworks, resource pooling and cleanup, datatype conversion
• Knowledge of database management systems internals is a plus
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures and algorithms
• Knowledge in the field of distributed systems, clustering, and high availability and specific technologies such as ZooKeeper is a big plus.
• Experience developing cloud solutions using OpenStack, Kubernetes, or other cloud technologies is a plus.
• Proficiency in Linux or another flavour or UNIX (Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX)
• OS Automation and Integration: scripting (shell, Python, PERL, etc.), Linux tools familiarity, OS resource management, job management
• Self-motivated and able to deliver projects with minimal supervision.
• Good oral and written communication skills.