Experience Senior · 6+ yrs (5+ years)
About the role
structured by ORILead the design and development of Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), OCI's managed Kubernetes service, building cloud-scale Kubernetes infrastructure for reliability, scalability, automation, advanced Kubernetes networking/storage, and next-generation AI/GPU workloads. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team offers…
What you will do
- Provide technical leadership for major OKE platform initiatives from architecture through implementation, launch, and production operation.
- Design and build distributed systems that create, update, scale, repair, and operate Kubernetes clusters across OCI regions.
- Improve OKE reliability, scalability, performance, upgrade safety, lifecycle management, observability, automation, and operational tooling.
- Work deeply with Kubernetes technologies, including control plane components, controllers/operators, scheduling, autoscaling, Kubernetes APIs, container runtimes, node behavior, and etcd.
- Design, debug, and improve Kubernetes networking and storage integrations, including CNI-based networking, Cilium, Calico, Flannel, other container networking implementations, CSI drivers, and OCI infrastructure integrations.
What they are looking for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent experience building and operating production software systems.
- Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience is required, ideally designing, building, operating, or debugging production services or platforms on OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP, or a large-scale private cloud.
- Strong hands-on Kubernetes expertise is required, including Kubernetes architecture, APIs, control plane behavior, controllers/operators, scheduling, autoscaling, networking, storage, nodes, cluster lifecycle management, or production cluster operations.
- Advanced Kubernetes knowledge, including CNI, CSI, etcd, service discovery, container runtimes, node lifecycle, and Kubernetes failure modes.
- Experience with Kubernetes networking technologies such as Cilium, Calico, Flannel, or other CNI implementations.
- Experience with Kubernetes storage integrations, including CSI drivers or cloud storage integrations.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including availability, failure handling, performance, scalability, and operational tradeoffs.
- Experience building highly available infrastructure services, platform services, or cloud native systems used in production.
- Strong development experience in both Go/Golang and Java is required.
- Strong Linux, networking, debugging, and production operations skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous technical projects, influence across teams, and deliver through other engineers without relying on formal authority.
- Strong communication skills, ownership, judgment, and ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs in production systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, GPU workloads, multi-node GPU clusters, accelerated compute, model training or inference platforms, GPU scheduling, device plugins, Karpenter, cluster autoscaling, CUDA, NCCL, high-performance networking, or distributed training systems.
- Experience with eBPF-based networking, Kubernetes network policy, service mesh, ingress, load balancing, overlays/underlays, BGP, VXLAN, SmartNIC/DPU offload, RoCE, InfiniBand, RDMA, or multi-cluster networking.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and cloud provisioning tools such as Terraform, Packer, cloud-init, IAM, VCN/VPC networking, VPN, FastConnect/Direct Connect, or equivalent cloud primitives.
- Experience building developer productivity, operational automation, or responsible AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows.
- Experience with observability systems, incident response, safe deployment practices, canary analysis, rollback strategies, service health automation, and large fleet operations.
- Open-source or upstream contribution experience in Kubernetes, cloud native infrastructure, observability, networking, or related systems.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
KubernetesGoJavaLinuxnetworkingdistributed systemsdebuggingetcdCiliumCalicoFlannel
Full posting text
Lead the design and development of Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), OCI's managed Kubernetes service, building cloud-scale Kubernetes infrastructure for reliability, scalability, automation, advanced Kubernetes networking/storage, and next-generation AI/GPU workloads.