Senior Principal Data Systems Software Engineer - Exadata Database

As a member of the Exadata software engineering team, you will:

• Develop core software for Oracle Database and Exadata, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability.

• Design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for large on-prem and cloud environments.

• Collaborate with various cloud teams to deliver stable, high-performance systems.

We’re seeking experienced Systems Software Engineers with a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field to join the Exadata Database Team.

We’re seeking experienced Systems Software Engineers with a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field to join the Exadata Database Team., BS / MS / PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• Strong background in distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and storage systems.

• Strong C/C++ programming skills.

• Experience developing on Linux platform.

• 7+ years of software development experience.

• Solid understanding of computer architecture, memory hierarchy, I/O, concurrency, etc.

• Experience in databases is a plus

• Experience in Rust programming language is a plus

Must be able & willing to work in the Redwood City, CA office a minimum 3 days per week. Relocation assistance available.

Exadata is Oracle’s flagship engineered system and the foundation of the world’s most advanced database platform. All Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) database services are built on Exadata, and the same platform underpins Oracle’s multi-cloud partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Exadata also powers Oracle Cloud@Customer and high-performance on-premises database systems.

The Exadata team builds the software that drives Oracle’s highest-performance database systems for mission-critical OLTP, analytics, and cloud workloads. Exadata is the only database platform engineered end-to-end for extreme performance, scalability, and availability, integrating Oracle database and storage software with industry-leading hardware technologies.

The Exadata platform powers many petabyte-scale databases across on-premises environments and multiple clouds, delivering query throughput beyond 1 TB/s and tens of millions of transactions per second. Its architecture is built for massive scalability and extreme performance, capable of completing OLTP transactions in under 20 microseconds and supporting multi-tenant cloud workloads spanning thousands of databases.