Principal Cloud Data Reliability Engineer

Oracle; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own the operational health and reliability of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service. You will partner with software teams to improve architecture, reliability, and scalability across Oracle Cloud environments.

In this role you will design automation, build observability solutions, and drive continuous service improvement through incident response, post-incident reviews, and SOP development, enabling cloud-native data movement

Qualifications

• US citizen with Top Secret security clearance and SCI eligibility.
• 7+ years production engineering experience (distributed services or cloud platform preferred).
• Automation scripting experience in Bash, Python, etc.
• Solid understanding of Software Engineering and CS principles.
• Strong Linux systems engineering foundation.
• Solid understanding of Networking, Security and Storage.
• Experience with Docker.
• Understanding Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• Experience with Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Hudson, TeamCity, etc).
• Ability to define meaningful KPIs and business metrics.
• Experience with cloud services at 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 documented as SOPs.
• Partner with software teams to improve service architecture, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Design and implement automation to reduce operational overhead and improve efficiency.
• Build and maintain observability solutions: monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards and metrics.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, disaster recovery readiness, and resilience.
• Support services across Oracle Cloud commercial and sovereign environments.
• Leverage IaC and CI/CD practices to improve deployment consistency and scalability.
• Drive continuous service improvement through reviews and reliability initiatives.

Skills

Distributed systems

Automation

Scripting (bash, python)

Linux systems

Networking

Security

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Observability

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own the operational health and reliability of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service. You will partner with software teams to improve architecture, reliability, and scalability across Oracle Cloud environments.

In this role you will design automation, build observability solutions, and drive continuous service improvement through incident response, post-incident reviews, and SOP development, enabling cloud-native data movement