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This is your chance to be part of the AI revolution, creating systems that allow customers to scale from tens to thousands of GPUs without compromising performance.\nOur team is responsible for designing and developing fundamental architectural changes for GPU delivery, health monitoring, triage automation, and diagnostic services. These are essential for running distributed AI/ML/HPC workloads across thousands of GPUs, leveraging technologies like RoCE and Infiniband.\nWhy Join Us?\nInnovative Projects: Build groundbreaking solutions for our customers from the ground up.\n\nExciting Times: Be part of a young, fast-growing team working on ambitious new initiatives.\n\nDynamic Environment: Collaborate in a vibrant, agile environment where learning and adaptability are key.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For:\nAdaptable Engineers: Self-motivated individuals with a quick learning ability.\n\nTechnical Excellence: Rock-solid developers and distributed systems engineers with a deep understanding of distributed systems and algorithms. Comfortable diving deep into any part of the stack, as well as software debugging and low-level systems troubleshooting.\n\nPassion for Simplicity and Scale: Value simplicity and scalability in design and implementation.\n\nCollaborative Spirit: Comfortable working in a collaborative, agile environment and eager to learn. Ability to collaborate effectively with various dependencies, including Network and Data Center operations.\n\nJoin us and be a part of the team that's pushing the boundaries of AI technology!\nMinimum Qualifications\nBS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience\nDeep understanding of operating systems, computer networks, and high-performance applications\n6+ years’ experience delivering and operating large-scale production systems (1000+ server instances)\nProficient in one programming language(java/python/c/c++/goLang/shell scripting)\nSystematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive.\nProven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle\nPreferred Qualifications\nStrong background in Linux systems\nFamiliarity with system-level architecture, data synchronization, fault tolerance, and state management.\nGeneral enterprise storage, networking, or computing experience\nExperience with Server/GPU hardware architecture and system management.\nExperience with Infiniband or RoCE networking\nHands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service data planes\nGood understanding of databases and SQL (MySQL) and caching technologies (Redis, Memcache etc) \n Key Responsibilities\nSystem Design & Architecture - System Scalability:\nLead the development and implementation, and begin to architect, components of scalable distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling to meet system demands, including leveraging distributed state management tools. \nOptimize code and/or systems for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements to support hyper-scale systems. \nDefine scalability requirements for owned components and ensure design and implementation requirements are met. \nDesign systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down). \nLeverage data plane platforms to effectively handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing. \nDesign performance and load testing.\nSystem Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:\nBuild and design fault-tolerant components and systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms. \nDesign systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance. \nImplement and optimize approaches to handle network unreliability, including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting. \nDesign components and systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), setting expectations for availability and durability of other computing services within the department.\nSystem Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:\nDefine key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify gaps or issues in running systems. \nBuild and customize moderately complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor components and system health..\nSystem Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:\nDesign and implement functional and correctness requirements for feature sets and/or systems in new or existing systems. \nDesign complex test scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness. \nImplement data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.\nOperational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:\nTake a proactive role in diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active components and systems to support ongoing operation, and mentor others in these processes. \nImplement strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues. \nMaintain expertise in owned components and systems to ensure effective troubleshooting and performance. \nMeet operational readiness expectations through design and implementation. \nServe in operational support rotations, providing guidance in incident response and root cause investigations.\nCompliance & Security:\nImplement robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption techniques and access controls. \nExecute remediation plans to address identified security gaps. \nEnsure cloud infrastructure is in compliance with industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up to date.\nAutomation & Change Management:\nDevelop and maintain automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure. \nCreate and adhere to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and begin designing systems and components to allow for automation of these processes.\nCore Responsibilities\nPlanning & Execution:\nManages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.\nCollaboration & Partnership:\nCollaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.\nProblem Solving:\nIdentifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.\nContinuous Learning:\nPursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.\nContinuous Improvement:\nDevelops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.\nPerformance and Development:\nContributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.\n Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle 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.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. 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.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. 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.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. 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