Principal Network Developer

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

This Principal Network Development Engineer (NDE) is focused on design and support of network fabric and systems. You will leverage a combination of a deep level understanding of networking at the protocol level, coupled with programming skills to support the intensive automation required to operate a production environment. We seek builders who can drive cloud-scale (think: hundreds of thousands of network devices supporting millions of servers, connected over a mix of dedicated backbone infrastructure and the Internet) technology design and operations.

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Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $102,300 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle''s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

• Supports the design, deployment, and operations of a large-scale, global Oracle cloud computing environment (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - OCI)
• Participates in network solution and architecture design process. Responsibility for developing standalone features.
• Responsible for decomposing designs into executable tasks and executing those tasks (will primarily use existing procedures and tools to develop and execute); collaborate with program/project managers to develop milestones and deliverables.
• Participate in operational rotations as either primary or secondary. Provide break-fix support for events and serve as escalation point for remediation; participate in post-event root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with network vendor technical account team and internal Quality Assurance team to drive bug resolution and assist in the qualification of new firmware and/or operating systems. May participate in the development of RFQ/RFPs.
• Coordinate with networking automation services for the development and integration of support tooling.
• May serve as technical SME in cross-functional activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 6-10+ years of related professional experience
• Experience with networking protocols such as BGP/OSPF/IS-IS, TCP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP, MPLS.
• Experience with automation systems, framework design/use and deployment.
• Experience with network modeling and programing - YANG, OpenConfig, NETCONF.
• Knowledge of network security design, system performance characterization and testing.
• Knowledge of data flow and telemetry design, deployment and operation.
• Capable of working under some supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a large ISP or cloud provider environment
• Demonstrated knowledge of Python for automation and datacenter design
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Excellent judgment in influence for product roadmap direction, features, and priorities.
• Supports the design, deployment, and operations of a large-scale, global Oracle cloud computing environment (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - OCI)
• Participates in network solution and architecture design process. Responsibility for developing standalone features.
• Responsible for decomposing designs into executable tasks and executing those tasks (will primarily use existing procedures and tools to develop and execute); collaborate with program/project managers to develop milestones and deliverables.
• Participate in operational rotations as either primary or secondary. Provide break-fix support for events and serve as escalation point for remediation; participate in post-event root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with network vendor technical account team and internal Quality Assurance team to drive bug resolution and assist in the qualification of new firmware and/or operating systems. May participate in the development of RFQ/RFPs.
• Coordinate with networking automation services for the development and integration of support tooling.
• May serve as technical SME in cross-functional activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 6-10+ years of related professional experience
• Experience with networking protocols such as BGP/OSPF/IS-IS, TCP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP, MPLS.
• Experience with automation systems, framework design/use and deployment.
• Experience with network modeling and programing - YANG, OpenConfig, NETCONF.
• Knowledge of network security design, system performance characterization and testing.
• Knowledge of data flow and telemetry design, deployment and operation.
• Capable of working under some supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a large ISP or cloud provider environment
• Demonstrated knowledge of Python for automation and datacenter design
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Excellent judgment in influence for product roadmap direction, features, and priorities.