Principal Cloud Data Reliability Engineer

Oracle Corporation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global scale projects

Distributed systems exposure

Reliability-focused culture

Career growth opportunities

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own operational health, reliability, and continuous improvement of OCI GoldenGate and related services. You will ensure production cloud services run securely, with automation driving efficiency and consistent deployments.

The role requires leading incident response, building observability, and partnering with software teams to scale globally. A TS clearance eligibility and 7+ years of experience are expected.

Qualifications

• 7+ years production engineering experience (distributed services or cloud platform experience preferred).
• Automation experience and scripting (bash, Python, etc.).
• Solid understanding of Software Engineering and Computer Science principles.
• Solid foundation in Linux Systems Engineering.
• Solid understanding of Networking, Security and Storage.
• Experience with Docker.
• Understanding Infrastructure as Code concept.
• Experience with Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Hudson, TeamCity).
• Ability to formulate meaningful KPIs and business metrics.
• Experience with cloud services at major providers (AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI) is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support production cloud services that power critical customer migration and data replication workloads.
• Monitor service health, investigate incidents, and lead troubleshooting efforts for complex production issues.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews with corrective actions.
• Act as escalation point for complex issues not yet documented as SOPs.
• Partner with software development teams to improve service architecture and operational readiness.
• Design and implement automation to reduce operational overhead and improve efficiency.
• Build and maintain observability solutions: monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, metrics.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, disaster recovery readiness, and resilience initiatives.
• Support services across Oracle Cloud environments; leverage IaC and CI/CD practices.

Skills

Automation

SRE principles

Distributed systems

Networking

Linux systems engineering

Security and storage

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Hudson

TeamCity

Job description

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own operational health, reliability, and continuous improvement of OCI GoldenGate and related services. You will ensure production cloud services run securely, with automation driving efficiency and consistent deployments.

The role requires leading incident response, building observability, and partnering with software teams to scale globally. A TS clearance eligibility and 7+ years of experience are expected.