Software Developer 5 - Kafka

Job Description

Oracle Database supports most demanding mission-critical customer requirements, operating at global scale to provide a secure, distributed, multi-tenant data platform for structured as well as unstructured data.

In this role, you will be responsible for enabling customer-use of a new event driven queuing capabilities in Oracle Database 23ai for where Kafka is traditionally used.

You will help customers build applications requiring high volume, high velocity, high variety data in event-driven and asynchronous domains.

As a member of the product development team, you will understand customer requirements, translate them to technical specification, do system design, define the architecture, collaborate with a team of software developers to build the service, help with operating and supporting the service (DevOps).

This is your opportunity to be a core part of the team that helps customers adopt these exciting new capabilities for Oracle's flagship Database. We are seeking a candidate with strong product architecture experience in cloud platform products or services and cloud development experience in languages such as Java and Python.

You will coordinate efforts between cross-functional teams to develop best-in-class capabilities. You will work with Product Management, Product Development, QA, Documentation, Support and at times directly with customers, marketing and sales.

The right candidate will possess a strong Software Product Architect background, an ability to work backwards from customer requirements and will have experience building multiple customer-facing products and features.

You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done. A customer-centric mindset, maturity, intellectual curiosity, agile development approach, pivot when needed, ability to hire and influence analytical talent are essential to succeed in this role.

Career Level - IC5

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand customer requirements and translate them into key constructs, concepts, resource model, APIs, KPIs, key UI elements,
• Define the event-driven architectures for supporting high availability, scalability, security, data privacy, encryption, access control, lifecycle management, monitoring, diagnostics
• Create detailed technical specification, and hands on prototyping when needed
• Guide product development team with implementation specifications
• Guide DevOps team with service operations
• Collaborate with PM, QA, Docs, Support teams to iterate and improve service offering
• Participate in customer events and key sales/marketing initiatives
• Define, measure and manage customer experience metrics for stakeholders
• Proactively identify and resolve risks and issues that may dent team's ability to execute

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline
• 10+ years of experience as hands-on product development with event-driven asynchronous architectures including the use of Kafka
• Experience developing applications using PL/SQL
• Very good understand of data platform market, competition and industry trends
• Experience with building, launching and operating cloud native services for data platform.
• Experience with building backend APIs layers using Java, Python with emphasis on Java
• Attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast paced environment
• Experience with Massively Parallel Processing systems
• Experience with technologies like micro services, public cloud, high availability, extreme scalability, provisioning patching, upgrade, backup/recovery, disaster/recovery, monitoring, diagnostic tooling, versioning, security, variety of programming languages and application development stacks

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

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

US: Hiring Range: from $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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.

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