Principal Data Systems Software Engineer - SRE

Oracle; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Disability insurance

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Oracle's GoldenGate OCI team seeks a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own operational health for OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service. Lead reliability initiatives, drive automation, and collaborate with cloud and software teams to scale and secure critical migrations.

The role emphasizes observability, IaC, CI/CD, and incident response across Oracle Cloud environments, with opportunities to shape architecture and platform evolution.

Qualifications

• US citizen with active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• 7+ years production engineering or distributed services experience.
• Strong automation background with scripting languages (bash, python, etc).
• Solid understanding of Software Engineering and CS principles.
• Solid foundation in Linux Systems Engineering.
• Strong networking, security, and storage fundamentals.
• Experience with Docker.
• Understanding Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• Experience with Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Hudson, TeamCity).
• Ability to derive KPIs and business metrics from systems.
• Experience operating cloud services at major providers (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support production cloud services powering customer migration and data replication workloads.
• Monitor service health, investigate incidents, and lead complex troubleshooting.
• Participate in incident response, RCA, and post-incident reviews with corrective actions.
• Serve as escalation point for critical issues not covered by SOPs.
• Collaborate with software teams to improve service architecture, reliability, and scalability.
• Design and implement automation to reduce overhead and improve efficiency.
• Build and maintain observability, including monitoring, logging, dashboards, and metrics.
• Contribute to capacity planning, disaster recovery readiness, and resilience initiatives.
• Support services across Oracle Cloud commercial and sovereign environments.
• Leverage IaC and CI/CD to ensure consistent deployments.

Skills

Automation experience

Scripting languages

Linux Systems Engineering

Networking

Security

Storage

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI)

Top Secret clearance

KPIs & metrics

Tools

Jenkins

Hudson

TeamCity

Job description

Job Description

GoldenGate Service is 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

Responsibilities

What You’ ll Do

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the operational health, reliability, and continuous improvement of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service.

You will:

• 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 while driving corrective and preventative actions.
• Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Partner with software development teams to improve service architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Design and implement automation to reduce operational overhead and improve service efficiency.
• Build and maintain observability solutions, including monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, disaster recovery readiness, and service resilience initiatives.
• Support services operating across Oracle Cloud commercial and sovereign cloud environments.
• Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices to improve deployment consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Drive continuous service improvement through operational reviews, reliability initiatives, and engineering best practices.

This role provides the opportunity to work on large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise customers worldwide, helping shape the future of Oracle's cloud-native data movement platform. This role requires Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to work on cloud services that support enterprise customers at global scale.
• Exposure to complex distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and large-scale operational challenges.
• A collaborative environment where reliability, automation, and engineering excellence are core priorities.
• Opportunities to influence service architecture, operational strategy, and platform evolution.
• Career growth through ownership, technical leadership, and collaboration with world-class engineering teams.
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and flexible work arrangements.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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