Principal Platform Engineer - Cloud DB Automation & Scale

Oracle

United Kingdom

On-site

GBP 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Internal Oracle Database (IOD) team seeks a Software Development Engineer with strong DBA and database systems experience to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable database services.

As a Principal Engineer, you will transform operational knowledge into software, build automation, and self-healing capabilities to enable the IOD platform to scale efficiently while improving developer productivity and operational excellence.

Qualifications

5+ years in database systems and software engineering.
Experience with distributed systems and automation.
Strong DBA capabilities and cloud infrastructure knowledge.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and operate large-scale database platform services that power mission-critical OCI workloads.
Build highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems to manage databases across global cloud regions.
Develop automation for provisioning, lifecycle management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and fleet operations.
Partner with DBAs, SREs, and service teams to deliver reliable data platforms with high availability and durability.