Principal Platform Engineer - Database Automation

Oracle; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Internal Oracle Database (IOD) team, a Tier-0 data platform powering OCI services. You will design, build, and operate scalable database services and automated tooling in a world-scale cloud environment.

As a Principal Engineer, you will transform operational knowledge into software, drive reliability, and create self-healing automation across global regions, collaborating with SREs and OCI service teams to enable scalable, resilient data

Qualifications

• Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate large-scale database platform services that power mission‑critical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) workloads.
• Build highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems in order to manage databases across global cloud regions.
• Develop automation for database provisioning, lifecycle management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and fleet operations.
• Partner with database architects, SREs, and OCI service teams to deliver reliable data platforms that meet stringent availability, performance, and durability requirements.
• Drive improvements in service reliability, scalability, observability, security, and operational efficiency for Tier‑0 cloud services.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues spanning database internals, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale fleet operations.
• Design and implement software solutions that optimize database performance, capacity utilization, and operational excellence.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering initiatives focused on the future of cloud‑scale database platforms.
• Leverage strong database administration (DBA) expertise to influence software design, automation strategies, and operational best practices.
• Contribute to the continuous evolution of OCI's foundational data services that support core cloud offerings
• Eliminate manual operational tasks by building self‑service workflows for provisioning, patching, upgrades, backup validation, failover testing, and decommissioning.
• Develop "automate-first" solutions that reduce operational toil
• Reduce operational burden, faster incident recovery, and improve service reliability.
• Build intelligent remediation systems that detect and automatically resolve common database and infrastructure issues.

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Internal Oracle Database (IOD) team, a Tier-0 data platform powering OCI services. You will design, build, and operate scalable database services and automated tooling in a world-scale cloud environment.

As a Principal Engineer, you will transform operational knowledge into software, drive reliability, and create self-healing automation across global regions, collaborating with SREs and OCI service teams to enable scalable, resilient data