Oracle

Principal Software Engineer, Platform

Oracle
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Base Salary

$105k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering and operational management for highly available, large-scale Oracle database fleets.
  • Analyze and tune Oracle 19c performance, diagnostics, reliability, upgrades, patches, and architectural changes.
  • Design database architecture, access methods, allocation strategies, validation controls, protection, and security standards.
  • Build scalable fleet-management automation, monitoring, diagnostics, and operational tooling using Python and/or Shell.
  • Define database capacity, availability, observability, resilience, versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies across services.
  • Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, complex issue resolution, and prevention initiatives.
  • Develop and evolve middleware patterns and runtimes for interoperability, multi-tenant scale, and cross-service compatibility.
  • Design, implement, test, debug, optimize, and maintain scalable software, APIs, systems, and services.
  • Lead code reviews, establish operational best practices and runbooks, and coach and mentor engineers.
  • Collaborate with OCI service owners and Compute, Storage, Networking, Governance, and other teams.
  • Provide advanced technical guidance on customer-reported issues and contribute to product and defect-resolution improvements.
  • Participate in candidate interviews and provide hiring recommendations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6–8 years of Oracle Database Engineering, Administration, or SRE experience.
  • Deep expertise with Oracle 19c, including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, SQL optimization, performance diagnostics, and HA/DR design.
  • Strong Python and/or Shell scripting experience for automation, diagnostics, monitoring, and operational tooling.
  • Experience leading complex database changes, upgrades, and reliability initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of database security, observability, capacity planning, and cloud-scale operations.
  • Proven technical leadership, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, critical thinking, and communication skills.
  • Experience with software architecture, API versioning and interoperability, performance optimization, testing, debugging, secure coding, and resilience practices.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
  • Short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental life insurance.
  • Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
  • Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
  • 401(k) savings and investment plan with company match.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial planning, group legal, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.
  • US-based employees must complete identity verification involving collection and processing of biometric information, subject to applicable accommodations.

Tech Stack

AssemblyOracle DatabasePythonSQL

Categories

Oracle

About Oracle

10,000+ employees

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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