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# [Remote] Principal Site Reliability Developer- USC Required

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Des Moines, IA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $86,400.0 - $199,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cerner, Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Build Automation, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, System Availability, Large Language Models, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/A3CE38189AB54CC2BC5169166DBBB0E2/job/

## About the Role

* 7-10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Production Engineering, or related infrastructure roles
 * Strong experience operating large-scale production systems with high availability requirements
 * Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and cloud infrastructure
 * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
 * Strong automation and software engineering skills
 * Experience improving operational excellence through tooling and engineering rigor
 * Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills in Linux-based environments
 * Experience with observability systems, monitoring, tracing, and alerting
 * Ability to lead technical initiatives and drive cross-team reliability improvements

Helpful Experience

 * AI/ML or LLM infrastructure in production
 * AIOps or intelligent operational automation
 * Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments
 * High-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
 * Experience with Java, Python, C++, or similar languages

Requirements

 * U.S. citizenship required
 * Ability to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance

## Description

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on solving hard distributed systems problems, improving platform resilience, and building intelligent operational capabilities at scale.

What You'll Own

 * Lead reliability engineering efforts for large-scale cloud-native healthcare platforms
 * Design and operate highly available distributed systems supporting AI-driven services
 * Build automation, self-healing systems, and intelligent operational tooling
 * Drive improvements across scalability, observability, deployment safety, and incident response
 * Lead complex production investigations and engineer durable long-term fixes
 * Develop AIOps capabilities including anomaly detection, predictive scaling, and automated remediation
 * Partner with software and platform teams to improve architecture, resiliency, and operational readiness
 * Influence engineering standards across Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud operations
 * Mentor engineers and help raise operational engineering maturity across the organization, This is an opportunity to help define reliability engineering for AI-powered healthcare systems at global scale. You'll work on meaningful technology, influence core platform direction, and help build a modern engineering culture focused on automation, ownership, and operational excellence.


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