Cloud DB Platform Engineer — Automation & Self-Healing

Oracle; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a high-caliber Software Development Engineer (IC4) for its Internal Oracle Database (IOD) team in Ireland. You will design, build, and operate scalable database services, creating automated self-healing capabilities and resilient platforms to support OCI workloads.

You will transform operational knowledge into software, work on large-scale distributed systems, and partner with SREs and architects to ensure durability, performance, and reliability across global regions.

Qualifications

• Strong DBA and database systems experience required.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure highly desired.
• Familiarity with automation, monitoring, and provisioning of large-scale services preferred.

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 and fleet operations.
• Partner with database architects, SREs, and service teams to deliver reliable data platforms meeting availability and performance targets.
• Drive improvements in reliability, observability, security, and operational efficiency for Tier‑0 cloud services.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues spanning database internals, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.

Skills

DBA experience

Database systems

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Job description

Oracle is seeking a high-caliber Software Development Engineer (IC4) for its Internal Oracle Database (IOD) team in Ireland. You will design, build, and operate scalable database services, creating automated self-healing capabilities and resilient platforms to support OCI workloads.

You will transform operational knowledge into software, work on large-scale distributed systems, and partner with SREs and architects to ensure durability, performance, and reliability across global regions.