Principal Cloud DB Platform Engineer

Oracle; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Internal Oracle Database (IOD) team seeks a Software Development Engineer with strong DBA and database systems experience to design, build, and operate scalable database services powering OCI workloads across global regions.

As a Principal Engineer, you will transform operational knowledge into software, build automation for provisioning, patching, backup validation, and fleet operations, and drive reliability, observability, and performance for Tier-0 data

Qualifications

• Strong DBA and database systems experience.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Willingness to work on automation and software development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate large-scale database platform services powering OCI workloads.
• Build highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems across global regions.
• Develop automation for provisioning, lifecycle management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup, recovery, and fleet operations.
• Partner with database architects, SREs, and OCI service teams to meet 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.

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Internal Oracle Database (IOD) team seeks a Software Development Engineer with strong DBA and database systems experience to design, build, and operate scalable database services powering OCI workloads across global regions.

As a Principal Engineer, you will transform operational knowledge into software, build automation for provisioning, patching, backup validation, and fleet operations, and drive reliability, observability, and performance for Tier-0 data