
Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer
Required skills
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- observability platform
- distributed systems
- telemetry ingestion
- data processing
- query execution
- multi-tenant reliability
- operational excellence
- cloud-native
Nice to have
- AI
Role summary
Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to build Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's state-of-the-art observability platform. This role involves tackling challenging distributed systems problems at massive scale, focusing on high-throughput telemetry ingestion, large-scale data processing, cost-efficient storage, low-latency query execution, and multi-tenant reliability. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, observability platforms, platform engineering, software development, system design, and operational excellence. The position is remote and requires a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and a passion for building foundational platforms.
Join the team building Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's state of the art observability platform, powering visibility and operational intelligence for both OCI's internal cloud services and customers running mission-critical workloads on OCI. OCI Observability serves as a foundational platform used by OCI engineering teams to operate and troubleshoot hundreds of cloud services while also enabling customers to monitor, analyze, and gain insights into their own applications and infrastructure. This unique position offers the opportunity to build observability solutions that operate at massive scale, serving the demanding needs of OCI's own services as well as a global customer base. Our team tackles some of the industry's most challenging distributed systems problems, including high-throughput telemetry ingestion, large-scale data processing, cost-efficient storage, low-latency query execution, multi-tenant reliability, and operational excellence. If you are passionate about building cloud-native observability platforms that power both the cloud itself and the customers who depend on it, we'd love to talk to you.
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Sample Oracle interview questions
- 1
Design a typeahead box for a search engine
system designmedium - 2
Design a distributed key-value store.
system designmedium - 3
Is this a valid palindrome?
codingeasy - 4
Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return true if nums has a subarray of at least two?
codinghard - 5
Given an nxn grid of 1s and 0s, return the number of islands in the input
codingmedium
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