Oracle

Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer

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13 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
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Base Salary

$96k - $264k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive site reliability strategy, standards, engineering practices, and operational readiness across large-scale platforms and multiple teams.
  • Lead architecture and design decisions for reliable, scalable, observable, fault-tolerant, and highly available systems.
  • Define service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and reliability reporting.
  • Design automation for deployment, configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, incident response, service recovery, self-healing, and remediation.
  • Partner with development teams on continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, and repeatable release practices.
  • Provide technical leadership during high-severity incidents, coordinate recovery and communication, and lead blameless post-incident reviews.
  • Lead capacity planning, performance analysis, load testing, disaster recovery, resilience testing, failure-mode analysis, and fault-injection exercises.
  • Mentor engineers and lead cross-functional technical initiatives, reviews, standards, and reliability improvements.
  • Partner with security and compliance teams on vulnerability remediation, access control, secure configuration, audit readiness, and operational governance.

Requirements

  • Extensive professional experience in site reliability engineering, software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, operating, and improving highly available production systems at significant scale.
  • Deep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud architecture, networking, operating systems, storage, databases, and service dependencies.
  • Advanced experience with at least one major cloud platform, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and configuration-management technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
  • Experience implementing observability solutions using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and automated alerting.
  • Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, Bash, or similar languages.
  • Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, and modern release-management practices.
  • Demonstrated leadership during critical production incidents and complex technical investigations, with the ability to diagnose issues across applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and cloud services.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives without relying solely on formal authority.
  • Preferred experience includes enterprise-scale cloud services, service-level objectives, error budgets, chaos engineering, multi-region or hybrid-cloud architectures, security and compliance, cloud cost efficiency, and technical community or open-source contributions.
  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

  • U.S. hiring range is $96,300 to $264,100 per annum, with possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and AD&D insurance are provided.
  • Benefits include a 401(k) plan with company match, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • The package includes paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
  • Additional benefits include financial planning, group legal services, voluntary insurance options, and community volunteer programs.

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DevOpsSite Reliability
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Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.

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