Site reliability developer

Job Description

Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Design, write, and deploy software to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of Oracle products and services. Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems. Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning.

We are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in Database administration and strong development capabilities. You will be responsible for engineering and operational management of a massively scaled Oracle database fleet, troubleshooting staging/production environments, and ensuring high availability of services. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving operational challenges through code and automation while enhancing system reliability, scalability, and efficiency. As an SRE, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, providing technical leadership, handling escalations, and taking ownership of operational service delivery.

We are aggressively building high scale public cloud technologies from the ground up Compute, Storage, Networking, Governance, Database, and Load Balancing Services. If you're a database engineer with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems for highly available services at massive scale, we are currently seeking Oracle Database Engineer Specialists.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide all activities related to the engineering and operational management of a massively scaled Oracle database fleet

• Project long-range requirements for database management and design in conjunction with other service owners in the Oracle Cloud ecosystem

• Conduct quality control and auditing of databases to ensure accurate and appropriate use of data

• Design, implement and maintain complex databases, access methods, access time, devise allocation, validation checks, organization, protection and security

Qualifications include:

• Possess knowledge of performing detailed performance analysis, tuning and diagnostics for Oracle 19c Databases

• Possess leadership experience to assure appropriate changes, upgrades, and enhancements are made based on the technical analysis

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field work

• Eight or more years of experience in Oracle Database Engineering

• Deep understanding and expertise in database management features

• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills

• Ability to work in an extremely fast paced and challenging environment

• Excellent command of written and spoken English

Responsibilities

Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team with the collection of services and/or technology areas. Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of production services. Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance. Authority for end-to-end performance and operability. Partner with development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture. Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer and add premier capabilities to the Oracle Cloud service portfolio. Understand and communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service and technology stack. Demonstrate clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Utilize a deep understanding of service topology and their dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. Understand and explain the affect of product architecture decisions on distributed systems. Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.

We are building a team of Oracle Database Engineers for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure service and we would love to learn more about your background.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) combines the elasticity and utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure to deliver high-performance, high availability and cost-effective infrastructure services.

The Oracle Database team supports all OCI software engineering teams. Every new OCI service and every new OCI region increases the number of databases we're responsible for. These scaling challenges demand both deep Oracle Database Administration skills and aggressive leveraging of Oracle technologies and engineering. As a member of this team, database availability, performance and customer satisfaction will be your top objectives.

Site Reliability Engineer will spend a significant amount of their time doing operational and reactive work related to the maintenance of our production databases. When not working on operational issues, the Database Engineer is working on engineering tasks such as automation, self-healing monitors and other efforts to improve operational excellence and database stability. The ideal Database Engineering candidate has a deep understanding of Oracle Database technologies as well as experience with scripting and automation

If you're a self-motivated database engineer with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems for highly available services at massive scale, then THIS is the right place for you!

This role requires participation in on-call rotation.

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: $86,400 to $199,500 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:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

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.

11 paid holidays

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.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

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.

Career Level - IC4

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