Principal Performance Engineer

Customers run their businesses on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud, leveraging an ever-expanding set of industry-leading cloud-based services such as security, networking, compute, storage, and database. OCI's Block Volumes service operates at massive scale, delivering exabytes of data across 60+ regions.

As part of the OCI storage performance team, you will be part of the team focused on improving storage performance for object, file and block implementations. In this role, you will be acting as a performance analyst, engaging functional subject matter experts on new designs and analysis of cloud performance issues.

• Responsibilities
• Key responsibilities :

Lead the design and execution of comprehensive benchmarks to evaluate the performance of our storage services including I / O operations, throughput, latency & scalability.

Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our storage architecture, networking, and cloud architecture.

Analyze and troubleshoot performance issues in software applications and systems, identifying bottlenecks and areas for improvement.

Analyze benchmark results, identify trends, and provide insights to drive storage performance improvements.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify bottlenecks and areas of improvement and provide actionable recommendations.

Work with product management team to develop performance metrics that meet customer requirements.

Analyze benchmark results, identify trends.

Develop and maintain benchmarking tools and scripts to automate testing & analysis.

Monitor and analyze storage performance using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and other monitoring solutions.

Create and maintain application profiles to simulate real-world workloads and test storage performance under various scenarios

• Requirements

A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is required.

6-10 years of experience in storage systems, database performance, and benchmarking.

Experience with Distributed Storage Systems.

Strong background in Storage Systems, File Systems, and architectures (SAN, NAS, DAS).

Experience with industry leading benchmarking tools such as FIO, Crystaldiskmark, IOR, MLPerf, VDBench, HammerDB, SysBench etc.

Strong programming experience (5+ years) with a focus on Python, Go, C / C++ or Java.

Strong understanding of CPU architectures and networking fundamentals.

Knowledge of Linux Systems Internals and Storage Protocols like (iSCSI, NVMe-oF, NFS, SMB).

Experience with Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible.

Experience with agile development methodologies and version control systems such as Git.

Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.

Strong leadership & mentoring skills.

Ability to identify performance issues, root cause problems, and be able to come up with potential solutions.

• Nice to Have :

Experience with cloud storage services such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Strong SQL skills and database performance tuning.

Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

Experience with application profiling and workload simulation.

Knowledge of OS virtualization constructs like Para virtualization, SRIOV.

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 in USD from : $96,800 to $223,400 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

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