Principal Software Engineer, Platform

Oracle
Santa Clara, CA, United States
10 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
6 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Tech stack

Microsoft Access Artificial Intelligence Databases Database Security Oracle Data Guard Middleware Python (Programming Language) Oracle Databases Oracle (Applications) Performance Tuning Reliability Engineering Cloud Services
+9 more
Recovery Manager (RMAN) Runbook Shell Script Software Engineering Management of Software Versions Sql Optimization System Availability Information Technology Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Job description

  • Lead engineering and operational management for highly available, large-scale Oracle database fleets.
  • Drive Oracle 19c performance analysis, complex tuning, diagnostics, and reliability improvements.
  • Design and implement database architecture, access methods, allocation strategies, validation controls, protection, and security standards.
  • Build scalable fleet-management automation and tooling using Python and/or Shell scripting.
  • Lead technical analysis for database upgrades, patches, enhancements, and architectural changes.
  • Define long-range database capacity, availability, and operational requirements with OCI service owners.
  • Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and prevention initiatives for complex production issues.
  • Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and establish operational best practices and runbooks.
  • Collaborate with Compute, Storage, Networking, Governance, and other OCI teams to deliver resilient cloud services.

Requirements

Software Engineering, Operations Management, High Availability, Oracle Database, Vehicle Fleets, Performance Analysis, Oracle, Reliability Engineering, Database Architecture, Microsoft Access Database, * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 6-8 years of Oracle Database Engineering, Administration, SRE experience.
  • Deep expertise with Oracle 19c, including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, SQL optimization, performance diagnostics, and HA/DR design.
  • Strong Python and/or Shell scripting experience for automation, diagnostics, monitoring, and operational tooling.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex database changes, upgrades, and reliability initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of database security, observability, capacity planning, and cloud-scale operations.
  • Proven technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Excellent written and spoken English, critical thinking, and ability to operate effectively in a demanding environment.

Leads platform projects crossing multiple teams, evolving runtimes or middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. Diagnoses and resolves complex cross-service issues; enforces versioning, compatibility, and safe rollout practices. Drives observability standards, capacity planning, and resilience patterns across several workloads. Produces migration guides and adoption playbooks that raise ecosystem consistency and developer experience.

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

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