Senior Cloud Database Platform Engineer

Ll Oefentherapie; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure seeks an experienced Software Development Engineer with strong DBA and database systems expertise to design, build, and operate highly scalable database services. You will tackle automation, reliability, and performance challenges across global cloud regions, contributing to Tier-0 services powering OCI workloads.

The role emphasizes transforming operational knowledge into software, building self-healing capabilities, and collaborating with architects, SREs, and

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of software development and DBA experience.
• Proficient in English (read, write and speak).
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems is a plus.

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 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.

Skills

Software Development

DBA Experience

Cloud Infrastructure

Tools

Oracle Database

Python

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure seeks an experienced Software Development Engineer with strong DBA and database systems expertise to design, build, and operate highly scalable database services. You will tackle automation, reliability, and performance challenges across global cloud regions, contributing to Tier-0 services powering OCI workloads.

The role emphasizes transforming operational knowledge into software, building self-healing capabilities, and collaborating with architects, SREs, and