Principal Platform Software Engineer (Database Platform)
Oracle Corporation
Overview
In this role you will design, build, and operate scalable database platform services powering OCI workloads. You will transform operational knowledge into software, creating automation and self-healing capabilities to boost reliability and scale. You’ll collaborate with DBAs, SREs, and service teams to deliver high-availability data platforms across global regions. You contribute to architecture, drive reliability and observability, and push for automation-first approaches. This is a chance to shape Oracle Cloud’s foundational data services and support large-scale, mission-critical workloads.
Pay / Benefits- competitive benefits
- flexible medical
- life insurance
- retirement options
- volunteer programs
- accessibility accommodations
- Design, develop, and operate large-scale database platform services for OCI workloads
- Build highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems across global cloud regions
- Develop automation for provisioning, lifecycle management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and fleet operations
- Partner with database architects, SREs, and OCI service teams to meet stringent availability, performance, and durability targets
- Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, observability, security, and operational efficiency for Tier-0 cloud services
- Troubleshoot complex production issues spanning database internals, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and fleet operations
- Design and implement software solutions to optimize database performance, capacity utilization, and operational excellence
- Participate in architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering initiatives for cloud-scale database platforms
- Leverage DBA expertise to influence software design, automation strategies, and operational best practices
- Contribute to evolution of OCI foundational data services that support core cloud offerings
- Eliminate manual tasks by building self-service workflows for provisioning, patching, upgrades, backup validation, failover testing, and decommissioning
- Develop "automate-first" solutions to reduce toil and improve reliability
- Build intelligent remediation systems that detect and resolve common database and infrastructure issues
- DBA and database systems expertise
- automation for provisioning, lifecycle management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and fleet operations
- distributed systems design and operation at cloud scale
- troubleshooting complex production issues across databases, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
- ability to influence software design and automation strategies with DBA expertise
- self-service workflow development for operational tasks
Reference: WJ-747_30154637