VirtualBox Principal Software Developer at Oracle

Ref No: 18000JW2
Job Type: Regular Employee Hire
Job: Product Development

Job Description

• Oracle VM VirtualBox is a leading desktop virtualization product for x86 and AMD64/Intel64 processors, spanning a wide range of applications ranging from enterprise to home use.
• It is used as a standalone product or as a component of other products, offering to run a wide variety of operating systems in a virtual machine on popular host operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS and Solaris). As one of Oracle's most widely visible products it is vital to stay on top of the trends.

The international team covers all aspects of product development, from design and implementation to sustaining.

• The Principal Software Developer (m/f) will design, implement, adapt and test various functionality, especially virtualization API code which makes complex operations available to client code using a simple interfaces. This needs understanding the key abstractions used in virtualization, especially device emulation, virtual machine management and product integration, to extend the product towards cloud functionality.

Requirements
He/she should have the following specific experience and qualification:

• Very good C/C++ programming skills, in particular in a COM/XPCOM/webservice context which includes other programming languages
• Analytical approach to problem solving, with diligence and precision, creating code with resilient error handling behavior
• Ability to work both independently and as a team member in an efficient manner
• Debugging code which operates on complex structures efficiently
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Good English skills, both written and verbal.
• BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.

The following would be an advantage:

• 7-8 years of working experience with virtualization knowledge
• Cross-platform programming experience, using as many of the following operating systems as possible: Windows, Linux, macOS and Solaris
• Experience with cloud API programming, either client or server side.
• This area of product development is covering a broad area of product functionality, and there will be a large amount of variety in the tasks.