Job Description

Oracle Fusion Applications (FA)

Oracle Fusion Applications ( https://www.oracle.com/uk/applications/ ) is Oracle's leading SaaS offering of critical business applications like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and many more. Our enterprise grade application suite serves as one of the focal points of Oracle's business value and is used and trusted by large enterprise customers across the globe. Whilst Fusion Applications has been a huge success, the basic architecture is still based on a monolithic, on-premise, Fusion Middleware stack that has not changed since its inception. Solving this problem is our challenge.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

OCI ( https://www.oracle.com/uk/cloud/ ) is the world's leading enterprise-class cloud platform. We build and operate cloud services at scale and are committed to providing the best cloud products that meet the needs of our customers, who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges. These services provide the foundation for businesses of all sizes around the world, as well as Oracle's Cloud (SaaS) Applications. With revolutionary innovations in performance, availability, ease of use, and security, we designed OCI for the reliability, predictability, and quality that the world's largest companies and smartest start-ups need, combining the elasticity and utility of a public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure. As a result, our customers can run the most demanding workloads, as well as less compute-intensive applications, in a secure and highly available cloud environment.

The Team

Fusion Apps Technical Architecture

We are the FA Technical Architecture team, have been tasked with defining the next generation architecture - codename Spectra - for Fusion Applications, based on cloud native principles and running on OCI. The migration from monolith to a modern cloud-based micro-service architecture opens new avenues to work with a wide range of state-of-the-art technologies and OCI services. It will also mean instituting better processes and practices as we transform to software as a service development model that includes following industry standard developer workflows, CICD pipelines, safe deployment practices, cloud based automated testing, DevOps culture, etc.


For this new Spectra architecture team, we're looking for talented software engineers across at various grades to join us and build out the frameworks and services for Health Monitoring and Chaos Engineering. As you can imagine, this service will be a critical part of hundreds of other services, helping to improve the resiliency of the services and help service owners to maintain their SLOs. This is a startup team and comes with a service ownership role that is hands-on, with lots of opportunity for large contributions and impact across the organization. At this stage, we're looking for highly passionate engineers with varying levels of experience and areas of expertise to join the team. As with most service teams, there will eventually be a periodic on call rotation as part of this role. Our developer kitchen includes: Java, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, service, Grafana and much more.

The Position

Principal Software Engineer (IC4)

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will already be a world-class engineer with top-notch coding skills and confidence working at all levels of the stack. Your role will be broad and varied and include:


Provide technical and project leadership to other software engineers on our team. Take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. Perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems. Work closely with engineers from various cloud service teams to build secure services and infrastructure that are fundamentally sound and efficient.
Your influence over the design of the full system architecture is critical. You should be familiar with all levels of the software, hardware, and network stack whilst having deep knowledge in a few. Intellectual curiosity and an excitement for solving complex problems of complex massive systems is a must. You should value simplicity and usability as well as security and work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment.

Responsibilities

As an IC4 your responsibilities could include, but not be limited to:


Design and develop software in Java, Python, and other languages. Participate in the entire software lifecycle - development, testing, CI/CD and production operations Apply engineering principles for defining robust and maintainable architectures and designs. Build cloud service on top of the modern Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) building blocks. Design and build distributed, scalable, fault tolerant software systems. Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables. Help establish and drive the adoption of outstanding coding standards and patterns and help enhance our inclusive engineering culture. Balance between product feature development and production operational concerns like ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and participating in on-call. Analyzing and debugging issues, including bugs, customer issues, and performance issues. Collaborating and contributing in an inclusive and diverse environment to continuously build a healthy work culture. Provide time-zone appropriate production support as part of an on-call rotation. Leading operational incidents, driving resolution and root cause analysis and product improvements to prevent reoccurrence.

About You

In terms of your background, skills and experience there is a broad range of skills and experience that we look for - some are baseline requirements, others are great to have but are not must-haves:

Minimum Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Strong BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent. 6-10+ years of developing and shipping distributed enterprise and/or cloud native systems, or similar technically complex projects. Demonstrable ability to write great code in modern Java (17+), Python, or similar OO languagesExperience leading teams, coaching & mentoring junior engineers. Strong grasp of system design fundamentals and distributed systems architectural best practices Experience building microservices and RESTful services Experienced at building highly available and scalable distributed services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols. Experience with containers and container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) Strong organizational, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts verbally and through design aspects Strong desire to make an impact and thrive in collaborative and energetic environments Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive.

Preferred Skills & Experience

Programming languages: Proficiency in Java, Python, and JavaScript is preferred. + Experience with AI/ML frameworks and libraries is a significant asset.
Production experience with Cloud and ML technologies Experience working in the below areas and algorithms will be ideal but not mandatory: + Generative AI Modeling: Customizing LLM's, build and deploy LLM's at scale for large scale data generation
Algorithms: Transformer models, Attention mechanism, Prompt tooling Experience with build automation, continuous integration, or continuous deployment tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, Grunt, RunDeck, Ansible, etc. Experience in developing and designing solutions with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with observability tools and practices. Experience with working flexible hours and working with team members in a global setting with distributed time zones.

The Location

The FA Technical Architecture / Spectra team in the UK is based in Bristol, in the iconic Generator Building ( https://work-clockwise.com/locations/bristol/ ) with close links to the city centre, public transport and M32, but we support a variety of flexible working arrangements including in-office, hybrid and remote, depending on circumstances, location and with agreement from your manager.



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As an IC4 your responsibilities could include, but not be limited to:


Design and develop software in Java, Python, and other languages. Participate in the entire software lifecycle - development, testing, CI/CD and production operations Apply engineering principles for defining robust and maintainable architectures and designs. Build cloud service on top of the modern Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) building blocks. Design and build distributed, scalable, fault tolerant software systems. Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables. Help establish and drive the adoption of outstanding coding standards and patterns and help enhance our inclusive engineering culture. Balance between product feature development and production operational concerns like ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and participating in on-call. Analyzing and debugging issues, including bugs, customer issues, and performance issues. Collaborating and contributing in an inclusive and diverse environment to continuously build a healthy work culture.

As an IC4 your responsibilities could include, but not be limited to:


Design and develop software in Java, Python, and other languages. Participate in the entire software lifecycle - development, testing, CI/CD and production operations Apply engineering principles for defining robust and maintainable architectures and designs. Build cloud service on top of the modern Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) building blocks. Design and build distributed, scalable, fault tolerant software systems. Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables. Help establish and drive the adoption of outstanding coding standards and patterns and help enhance our inclusive engineering culture. Balance between product feature development and production operational concerns like ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and participating in on-call. Analyzing and debugging issues, including bugs, customer issues, and performance issues. * Collaborating and contributing in an inclusive and diverse environment to continuously build a healthy work culture.