Senior Software Developer - Studio in the Cloud
Oracle - Boston, MA
posted 2 months ago
About the position
As a Senior Software Engineer in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you will have the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems and contribute to the development, delivery, and operation of cloud services that will enable animation, film, and game development studios to migrate their entire production pipeline to the cloud. The charter is responsibility for the design, implementation, and operation of a new set of cloud services focused specifically on the digital media production industry. Product areas include virtual animation workstation service, digital asset management, high-performance storage, render farm as a service, license management, and production pipeline management services. This is an opportunity to help build a competitive offering from the ground up and extend the reach of OCI to address green field opportunities in the media and entertainment industry. You will work with a talented group of software developers, designing scalable, highly available cloud services in a world-class cloud development environment. For this engineering role, we are seeking an individual with experience in enterprise-level software development, delivery, and operation of cloud services at the technical level. Prior experience and domain knowledge in media production pipeline infrastructure services used in film, animation, and game development studios is a plus. Senior Software Engineer is an individual contributor role that requires a track record of success and technical depth as a software developer. We seek individuals with evolved soft skills in addition to technical acumen. Excellent communication and the ability to collaborate with others are hallmarks.
Responsibilities
- Cloud service design for availability, scalability, observability and testability
- Implementation, validation and documentation of services and their component microservices
- Collaboration within the engineering team to deliver and operate cloud services that enable animation, film and game development studios to run their production workflows in the cloud.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry best practices, ensuring compliance and driving innovation within the organization.
- Launching new cloud services and establishing operational excellence.
- Work collaboratively to realize and achieve the technical vision of the team
- Ability to engage with geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Ensuring compliance to software development standards, processes and best practices
Requirements
- Large/enterprise scale software development and engineering experience, particularly with cloud services and distributed systems.
- Domain knowledge and experience with workflows and pipelines for media production: digital asset management and namespaces, familiarity with 3D frameworks, universal scene description, scene graphs, layers and models, 3D data packaging, rendering workflows, image composition, tools used in the workflow by artists, engineers, editors and content creators is a plus.
- Experience collaborating with geo-distributed teams.
- Training and experience in software implementation, code and design review, failure root cause analysis.
- Designing for availability, observability, scalability, testability, recoverability.
- BS/CS Computer Science or related field and 3+ years software development experience with modern programming languages.
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
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- 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.
- 11 paid holidays
- 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.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
