What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Member of Technical Staff Oracle Rdb position at Oracle?
Who We Are
The Oracle Rdb group develops, maintains, and enhances the Oracle Rdb product family, led by the Oracle Rdb relational database which is focused on the OpenVMS operating system platform. With a loyal customer base including stock exchanges, major manufacturers, transportation networks and telecommunication companies, Oracle Rdb is valued by customers for its reliability and performance. Sharing the kernel and lower levels of Rdb is Oracle CODASYL DBMS, a network model database that retains an important customer base in areas such as semiconductor manufacturing. Filling out the product portfolio are a suite of related products such as Oracle Trace and Oracle CDD/Repository. With a history on VAX/VMS and Alpha/VMS, these products are currently being produced for OpenVMS Itanium systems with the next target being OpenVMS on the x86-64 hardware platform, Oracle Rdb continues to provide robust, mission-critical database capabilities to these customers around the world, and the group continues to evolve the product to meet the needs of its customer base.
A software development engineer is sought to work on the port of the Oracle Rdb Product Family to the x86 version of the OpenVMS operating system. The engineer should also be able to contribute to the development and maintenance of the product set after the port has been completed. The product set includes 2 primary database products. These are Oracle Rdb and Oracle CODASYL DBMS. Oracle Rdb is a Relational Database Management system and Oracle CODASYL DBMS is a database engine that implements the Network Model. Both run on the OpenVMS operation system.
The x86 ported Oracle Rdb products run on top of Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) KVM. Candidates should be capable of working in an OLE KVM hypervisors environment running OpenVMS VMs.
Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
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.
Responsibilities:
A detailed knowledge and work experience in the flowing areas is highly desirable:
- A strong background in Unix and more specifically OEL.
- A knowledge of OEL KVM
- Experience in porting large software projects
- A strong knowledge of code management systems, specifically ADE and it’s merge processes
- Developing, debugging, testing and maintaining complex software systems.
- Operating System concepts
- Compiler Technology
- Languages:
- C and C ,Cobol, Pascal, Fortran, Basic and Macro programming languages.
- A knowledge of Database Technology is a plus
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 database systems.
Salary : $96,800 - $223,400
