Senior Software Engineer – OCI Exadata Cloud Platform

Our platform delivers next-generation Exadata X8M/X9M/X11M infrastructure with elastic compute and storage scaling, enabling customers to seamlessly grow their environments as business demands evolve.

Built on advanced technologies including:

• RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
• Persistent Memory (PMEM)
• KVM virtualization
• Intelligent Exadata software
• High-performance distributed systems architecture

OCI Exadata Cloud provides industry-leading low latency, high throughput, and extreme scalability for enterprise-grade workloads.

As part of our engineering organization, you will design and develop core cloud platform capabilities powering Oracle’s next-generation Exadata services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You will work alongside world-class engineers solving complex distributed systems challenges at massive scale while building highly available, resilient, and customer-centric cloud solutions.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to foundational cloud infrastructure technologies that power some of the world’s most demanding enterprise applications.

• Career Level

• IC3

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure services for OCI Exadata Cloud.

• Build high-performance distributed systems focused on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

• Develop innovative features across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and cloud orchestration layers.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineers, architects, SREs, and product teams to deliver cloud platform capabilities.

• Optimize system performance, latency, resiliency, and resource utilization for large-scale enterprise workloads.

• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of next-generation Exadata cloud technologies.

• Troubleshoot complex production and distributed systems issues in highly scalable cloud environments.

• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and engineering best practices to maintain high-quality software standards.

• Drive automation, observability, and operational improvements across cloud infrastructure services.

• Continuously improve system availability, scalability, and customer experience.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as:
• C++
• Java
• Python
• Go

Technical Skills:

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure concepts.
• Experience building scalable backend or infrastructure services.
• Knowledge of Linux systems internals and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as KVM, containers, or hypervisors.
• Familiarity with high-performance networking technologies (RDMA/RoCE is a plus).
• Understanding of performance optimization, concurrency, and scalable system design.
• Experience with cloud platforms or large-scale infrastructure environments is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and operational tooling.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP infrastructure services.
• Knowledge of database infrastructure or storage systems.
• Experience operating highly available production systems at scale.
• Passion for solving complex engineering problems in large-scale distributed environments.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in cross-functional engineering teams.