Linux Engineer - BDE

Product Development

Work Location: Beijing or Shenzhen

Oracle on Linux

Announcing Oracle Unbreakable Linux

Oracle Unbreakable Linux is a support program that provides enterprises with industry-leading global support for Linux. Recognizing the demand for true enterprise-quality Linux support and seeing an opportunity to significantly reduce IT infrastructure costs, Oracle is now offering Linux operating system support.

Press Release,

KEY OBJECTIVE:

As a member of the Linux Engineering team at the Oracle China Development Center in Beijing, you will be responsible for diagnosing, resolving, and debugging Linux kernel and user space problems. Interface with development teams in the US and other locations when assistance or code fixes are needed.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Expert/BDE team is the 2nd level support team which will work with customers to resolve  high priority issues and  difficult to reproduce problems
2. Two function area, each handle kernel and rest of user space application/tools.
3. Diagnose and verify reported problems, log bugs if necessary, and coordinate with Sustaining team.
4. Strong ability to diagnose problems on all supported Linux distributions
5. Familiar with the source code of the various application/tools.
6. Should have basic knowledge of Oracle products.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE and TRAINING:

Required Skills
1. Good working knowledge of C
2. Good verbal and written English communication skills
3. Excellent system-level debugging skills
4. Experience with one or more Linux distributions
5. Experience with patching and rebuilding Linux packages

Desired Skills
1. Basic Oracle knowledge
2. Good organizational skills
3. Experience with one or more functional areas of Linux (e.g. kernel, networking, file system, gcc)
4. Understanding of the Linux development process
5. Ability to work independently and in a team environment

Experience Requirement:
1. 3+ years of software development experience
2. 2+ years in Linux software development
3. Previous experience working in a team environment
4. Experienced in respective Linux sub systems or packages (e.g. glibc, utilities like zip, unzip, boot scripts, boot loader , gtk libraries, programming languages such as perl, python, php, c, c++. Installation scripts, networking tools, daemons such as apache, cron, and shell scripting experience)