Senior Distributed Systems Reliability Engineer

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 79,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking an experienced engineer to design, implement, and optimize components in distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and operability.

The role involves delivering features and conducting load/performance tests, leveraging data plane platforms, and applying recovery-oriented principles. You will build fault-tolerant paths and implement retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts while maintaining security controls and compliant documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable distributed systems.
• Ability to implement retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Proficiency in monitoring with dashboards and telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems for scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Implements recovery-oriented computing principles and fault-tolerant paths with redundancy and automatic failover.
• Builds and maintains dashboards, telemetry, alarms, and runbooks; participates in incident response and RCAs.
• Implements data replication and synchronization techniques to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components and contributes to automation for troubleshooting.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Load testing

Automation / IaC

Security controls

Incident response

Job description

Oracle is seeking an experienced engineer to design, implement, and optimize components in distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and operability.

The role involves delivering features and conducting load/performance tests, leveraging data plane platforms, and applying recovery-oriented principles. You will build fault-tolerant paths and implement retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts while maintaining security controls and compliant documentation.