Database Principal Member of Technical Staff

PLEASE NOTE:

This position is available for our Redwood City, CA location only.  No relocation will be provided.  Role requires IN office 2-3 days per week and as needed.

NO SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE-US CITIZEN ONLY

 

About the Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join “Data Safe” team and engineer Oracle Cloud technologies that secure customer data in cloud and on-premises Oracle Databases. You will be continually challenged to solve problems and have an opportunity to contribute to the Oracle Cloud and Database success every day and be part of Oracle Database development team. As an engineer for “Data Safe” cloud service, you will solve interesting technical challenges by defining, designing, deploying, patching, and troubleshooting, to ensure service reliability, scalability, resilience, security, compliance, performance, and availability.

What You'll Do

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Service Ownership – You will be part of the engineering team, whose mission is the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas. You will be a member of a team that will understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of the production services, monitoring, diagnosability, incident management, etc. In partnership with your development teams, you and your team will have the responsibility to ensure that services are designed and delivered to be mission critical with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.

Service Design – As the Oracle Cloud evolves; you will partner with other team members in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture, both current and future. You will be an expert at articulating technical characteristics of your services and the dependencies between services and guide Development teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio.

Service Monitoring - Define Service Level Objectives (SLO) and implement/monitor Service Level Indicators (SLI) for production services. Aggregate data from multiple monitoring tools, normalize, and build tools and alerts for the overall system health.

Operations Engineering – You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, automation, performance attributes and requirements of the services you own. You are a Subject Matter Expert, able to understand and communicate every characteristic of your service stack, such as: degradation and behavior under load of the services and their dependencies end-to-end tuning needs, optimizing resource utilization, as load patterns fluctuate Instrumentation and metrics that clearly describe the service behaviors scaling requirements and patterns, resiliency and recoverability, ensuring that backup / restore and disaster recovery capabilities are implemented, tested and maintained

Service Automation – You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. You would maintain Infrastructure as a Code. Automation must be part of your DNA.

Prevention - Once you have expertly resolved an issue, you will immediately work on how to resolve the problem next time more quickly, with the goal to eventually prevent the problem happening ever again

Broad Interests - Cloud engineers are a mix of sysadmins and development engineers, and as such could understand and explain the effect of product architecture decisions on the ability to run as distributed systems. They are driven by professional curiosity and a desire to develop deep understanding of their services and the technologies they depend upon.

Represent Team - Proactive, self-motivated, customer-focused, organized, and a good communicator. Cloud Engineers can be expected to represent Cloud products and engineering in sensitive forums.

Ideally You Should Have:

- A BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent

- 6-7 years of experience in IT including Development in Java/SQL/Python and/or running large scale customer facing web services in a Cloud environment along with DevOps experience

- Automation experience using Terraform, Python, Scripting, Containers

- Aptitude to be a good team player and the willingness to learn and implement new Cloud technologies as needed

- Methodical approach to troubleshooting complex problems

- Solid understanding and experience in:

• Cloud computing concepts and platforms
• Java and REST APIs, web application stack and patterns
• Database administration, SQL, and PL/SQL
• Linux internals and system administration
• Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development
• Scripting languages such as Python, Bash
• Cloud service lifecycle management
• Configuration and change management and automation
• Cloud Service monitoring and incident management

Career Level - IC4

Qualifications:

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.

Salary : $96,800 - $223,400