Principal Data Systems Software Engineer

Oracle Corporation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

GoldenGate Service is seeking a senior production engineer to own reliability of distributed services in a cloud environment. This role requires US citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

You will contribute to automation, scripting, Linux engineering, and cloud-service operations across major cloud platforms. Ideal candidates have 7+ years of production engineering experience, strong automation skills, and solid software engineering fundamentals.

Qualifications

• This position requires US citizenship and active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• 7+ years production engineering experience (distributed services or cloud platform experience preferred).
• Automation experience with scripting languages (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 in building fully automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Hudson, TeamCity, etc).
• Be able to understand and formulate meaningful KPIs and business metrics.
• Experience in building/managing/operating cloud services at one of the big cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI) is a big plus.

Skills

Automation

Scripting (bash, python)

Linux Systems Engineering

Networking

Security

Storage

CI/CD

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Job description

GoldenGate Serviceis a new multi-tenant, cloud native service for real-time data integration and replication in heterogeneous IT environments. GoldenGate enables users to replicate and integrate data from different sources, including operational and analytics data, as well as real-time data streaming such as Apache Kafka. This service is expected to scale across thousands of tenants and enable transactional change data capture, data replication, transformations between systems. This cost effective data replication solution is engineered for highest performance and availability to run variety of data integration uses cases of the customers. This is a global team with locations in US, Hungary, Mexico and Oracle’s India Development Centre (IDC) Bangalore.

Our team owns the reliability, availability, operational excellence, and customer experience of these services. We work closely with software development, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to ensure our services remain secure, resilient, and highly available as adoption continues to grow across commercial and sovereign cloud environments. There is a high degree of autonomy required in this role and we are looking for engineers who want to help drive our roadmap.

This role offers the opportunity to solve complex distributed systems challenges, influence service reliability at scale, and contribute to cloud services used by enterprise customers around the world.

The ideal candidate will be technically strong and get a lot done. Automation is a core tenet for everything you do. You've made life easier and have motivated your team to make both process and service improvements.

Candidates should have broad working knowledge across multiple domains, but we love to see specialization as well. The basics we expect are: Networking, Linux Systems Engineering, Software Engineering/Automation, and Distributed Systems.

Learn more about OCI GoldenGate.

Experience/Qualifications:

• This position requires that the candidate selected be a US citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
• 7+ years production engineering experience (distributed services or cloud platform experience preferred)
• Proven experience with automation and strong experience in a scripting language (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 in building fully automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Hudson, TeamCity, etc)
• Be able to understand and formulate meaningful KPIs and business metrics
• Experience in building/managing/operating cloud services at one of the big cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GPC or OCI) is a big plus