Senior Software Engineer at Oracle

We can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.  OCI is committed to providing best of breed cloud products that meet the needs of our large enterprise customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. We are still building out our portfolio of cloud services and as such engineers at all levels have a real chance to make an impact and shape the future of Oracle’s cloud platform.

OCI Cape Town is currently looking for hands-on engineers to build out an exciting new team working on a suite of OCI-native services in the digital media space. We are building services from the ground up that run the gamut from content transcode and streaming to information extraction and analytics. From a technology perspective, this is a greenfield development environment with a huge amount of autonomy, leaving us free to build and innovate without being encumbered by legacy products and services.

Join our friendly distributed team working in a collaborative, remote-first culture to build a globally impacting product. All OCI Cape Town employees work from home which has given us the flexibility in hiring the right candidate remotely.

We are looking for passionate, technical leaders who

• Have a proven track record of delivering high-scale, high-impact solutions
• Can design highly scalable services and make the appropriate tradeoffs between performance, reliability and maintainability
• Have a solid grounding in computer science fundamentals, who would be at home picking up a new programming language or problem domain
• Enjoy working in an innovative and collaborative environment
• Can act as escalation points for our operational support on an on-call roster basis

Core requirements

• Bsc or Msc degree in Computer Science or related field. Equivalent experience with a proven track record may be substituted.
• Typically has 5+ years or more relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of C, C++ or Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl, etc.

Plus preferred experiences that we are looking for

• Experience in digital media workloads (transcoding, streaming, DRM, codecs etc)
• Software development experience with distributed, highly scalable, multi-node environments
• Strong understanding of virtual machine technologies, networking and storage systems
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
• Extensive Linux experience, both command-line and system level knowledge
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Ability to design, develop and troubleshoot software programs across database, network and application stacks.