Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Data Replication

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own the operational health, reliability, and continuous improvement of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service. You will work on production cloud services powering critical customer migrations and data replication workloads.

You will monitor service health, lead incident response, and collaborate with software teams to improve scalability, resilience, and deployment automation across Oracle Cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production engineering experience in distributed services or cloud platforms.
• Strong automation and scripting experience (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.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Hudson, TeamCity, etc).
• Ability to define KPIs and business metrics.
• Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support production cloud services that power critical customer migrations 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.

Skills

Production engineering

Automation scripting

Software engineering principles

Linux systems engineering

Networking and security

Storage concepts

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud services

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to own the operational health, reliability, and continuous improvement of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service. You will work on production cloud services powering critical customer migrations and data replication workloads.

You will monitor service health, lead incident response, and collaborate with software teams to improve scalability, resilience, and deployment automation across Oracle Cloud environments.