Senior Distributed Systems Engineer: Scale & Resilience

Oracle Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Santa Clara, CA designs and optimizes distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and operability. The role involves delivering features, load and performance tests, and implementing fault-tolerant paths, retries, and timeouts.

You will proactively detect issues via telemetry, runbooks, and incident responses, while building automation tooling and IaC for maintenance. Strong collaboration across teams and adherence to security and compliance standards are

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed systems for scalability and reliability.
• Strong knowledge of fault tolerance, replication, and failover.
• Experience with monitoring, incident response, and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements components for scalable distributed systems.
• Drives reliability through redundancy, retries, and circuit breakers.
• Develops automation scripts and IaC for operations and maintenance.
• Participates in incident management and RCAs.

Skills

Distributed systems design

System scalability

Resilient architectures

Automation & IaC

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Monitoring & tracing

Job description

Oracle Corporation in Santa Clara, CA designs and optimizes distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and operability. The role involves delivering features, load and performance tests, and implementing fault-tolerant paths, retries, and timeouts.

You will proactively detect issues via telemetry, runbooks, and incident responses, while building automation tooling and IaC for maintenance. Strong collaboration across teams and adherence to security and compliance standards are