Oracle is hiring: Principal Software Engineer - Studio in the Cloud in Seattle

Job Description - Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development

As a Principal Engineer in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you will have the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems and function as a lead developer in the development, delivery, and operation of cloud services that will enable animation, film, and game development studios to migrate their entire production pipeline to the cloud. The charter is responsibility for the design, implementation, and operation of a new set of cloud services focused specifically on the digital media production industry. Product areas include virtual animation workstation service, digital asset management, high-performance storage, render farm as a service, license management, and production pipeline management services. This is an opportunity to build a competitive offering from the ground up and extend the reach of OCI to address green field opportunities in the media and entertainment industry. You will work with a talented group of software developers, designing scalable, highly available cloud services in a world-class cloud development environment. For this senior engineering role, we are seeking an individual with substantial experience in design authorship, building, and leading development, delivery, and operation of cloud services at the technical level. Prior experience and deep domain knowledge in media production pipeline infrastructure services used in film, animation, and game development studios is highly desired. Principal Engineer is an individual contributor role that requires a proven track record of success and technical depth and maturity as a software developer. We seek individuals with evolved soft skills in addition to technical acumen. Excellent communication and the ability to lead and collaborate with others are hallmarks. You will mentor other engineers and must be capable of driving complex technical projects and assignments independently and with confidence. You will have continuous opportunities for technical innovation.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

• Cloud service design for availability, scalability, observability, and testability.
• Implementation, validation, and documentation of services and their component microservices.
• Collaboration within the engineering team to deliver and operate cloud services that enable animation, film, and game development studios to run their production workflows in the cloud.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry best practices, ensuring compliance and driving innovation within the organization.
• Launching new cloud services and establishing operational excellence.
• Lead implementation to realize and achieve the technical vision of the team.
• Ability to engage with geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Coaching and mentoring other members of the engineering staff.
• Establishing and ensuring compliance with software development standards, processes, and best practices.

Qualifications

• Large/enterprise scale software development and engineering experience, particularly with cloud services and distributed systems.
• Domain knowledge and experience with workflows and pipelines for media production: digital asset management and namespaces, familiarity with 3D frameworks, universal scene description, scene graphs, layers and models, 3D data packaging, rendering workflows, image composition, tools used in the workflow by artists, engineers, editors, and content creators is highly desired.
• Experience as a lead developer in the design, implementation, and operation of cloud services.
• Experience collaborating with geo-distributed teams.
• Extensive background and experience in software implementation, code and design review, failure root cause analysis.
• Designing for availability, observability, scalability, testability, recoverability.
• BS/CS in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of software development experience.