Senior Site Reliability Developer

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 79,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle Health Data, Analytics Platform is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate large-scale, stateful distributed data platforms (HDFS, YARN, HBase, Kafka, Storm) on Oracle Big Data Service. You will lead platform architecture, automation via Ansible/Terraform, and incident leadership while ensuring security and observability across teams.

The role emphasizes end-to-end reliability, scalability, and collaboration with multiple downstream customers, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 4+ years operating large-scale, customer-facing distributed platforms.
• Deep experience with HDFS, YARN, HBase, Kafka, Storm, or similar systems.
• Strong background in Linux, networking, and distributed system troubleshooting.
• Infrastructure-as-Code using Ansible and Terraform.
• Scripting and automation using Python, Ruby, and Bash.
• Hands-on experience operating Kerberized environments.
• Proven ability to define and document technical architecture for complex systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of shared platforms with broad blast radius and multiple downstream consumers.
• Experience designing observability and capacity models for distributed platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end reliability, scalability, and operability of shared data platforms.
• Define platform standards, architectural direction, and operational guardrails.
• Influence cross-team technical decisions and long-term platform strategy.
• Drive long-term platform evolution and influence reliability strategy across the data ecosystem.
• Clearly articulate system behavior, dependencies, and failure modes.
• Make principled trade-offs between reliability, performance, cost, and complexity.
• Provide guidance and guardrails that enable downstream teams to use platforms safely and effectively.
• Establish capacity models, scaling strategies, and operational best practices.
• Design platforms that behave predictably under load, failure, and change.
• Own platform lifecycle events: upgrades, expansions, decommissioning, and recovery.
• Operate and evolve stateful distributed systems where data placement, replication, and recovery are critical.
• Reason about failure modes such as backpressure, rebalancing, region movement, replication lag, and rolling upgrades.
• Operate and maintain Kerberized platforms, including authentication, authorization, and secure service-to-service communication
• Treat security as a first-class architectural concern.
• Design and evolve an Ansible- and Terraform-driven automation framework.
• Treat automation as production software: versioned, reviewed, tested, and improved.
• Eliminate operational toil by encoding reliability and safety into the platform.
• Serve as the ultimate escalation point for complex or ambiguous incidents.
• Focus on eliminating entire classes of failure, not just resolving individual issues.
• Represent SRE and platform engineering in high-visibility and sensitive forums.
• Communicate clearly with engineering leadership and partner teams.

Skills

Platform ownership

Cross-team collaboration

Ability to influence decisions

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

HDFS

YARN

HBase

Kafka

Storm

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Ruby

Bash

Linux

Networking

Kerberos

Job description

Job Description

U.S. Citizenship required and eligibility for a Federal Security Clearance

Our Team

Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health Data, Analytics Platform. This team will focus on product development and product strategy for Oracle Health, while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. This is a net new line of business, constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to make it a world class engineering center with the focus on excellence.

Job Description

U.S. Citizenship required and eligibility for a Federal Security Clearance

Our Team

Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health Data, Analytics Platform. This team will focus on product development and product strategy for Oracle Health, while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. This is a net new line of business, constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to make it a world class engineering center with the focus on excellence.

Oracle Health Data, Analytics Platform has a rare opportunity to play a critical role in how Oracle Health products impact and disrupt the healthcare industry by transforming how healthcare and technology intersect.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Reach billions of people with our products & services
• Create technology in which truly impacts the world
• Ability to have immediate impact on developing technology
• Unlimited growth potential with inspiring work
• Work with the best minds in the industry
• Enjoy working in an open, diverse, and productive environment

About The Job

This role provide support to core data platforms behind Oracle Health’s Data & Analytics Platform. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will own shared, mission-critical systems used by multiple products and teams.

You will work on the design and operation of large-scale, stateful distributed platforms, including Hadoop ecosystem components (HDFS, YARN, HBase) deployed on Oracle Big Data Service (BDS), Kafka, and Storm. These multi-tenant platforms are deployed and operated through Ansible- and Terraform-based automation and require strong architectural ownership to manage scale, change, and broad blast radius.

What You'll Do

Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership

• Own the end-to-end reliability, scalability, and operability of shared data platforms
• Define platform standards, architectural direction, and operational guardrails
• Influence cross-team technical decisions and long-term platform strategy
• Drive long-term platform evolution and influence reliability strategy across the data ecosystem

Architecture & Design

• Clearly articulate system behavior, dependencies, and failure modes
• Make principled trade-offs between reliability, performance, cost, and complexity
• Provide guidance and guardrails that enable downstream teams to use platforms safely and effectively

Operations Engineering

• Establish capacity models, scaling strategies, and operational best practices
• Design platforms that behave predictably under load, failure, and change
• Own platform lifecycle events: upgrades, expansions, decommissioning, and recovery

Distributed Systems Expertise

• Operate and evolve stateful distributed systems where data placement, replication, and recovery are critical
• Reason about failure modes such as backpressure, rebalancing, region movement, replication lag, and rolling upgrades

Security

• Operate and maintain Kerberized platforms, including authentication, authorization, and secure service-to-service communication
• Treat security as a first-class architectural concern

Automation

• Design and evolve an Ansible- and Terraform-driven automation framework
• Treat automation as production software: versioned, reviewed, tested, and improved
• Eliminate operational toil by encoding reliability and safety into the platform

Incident Leadership & Prevention

• Serve as the ultimate escalation point for complex or ambiguous incidents
• Focus on eliminating entire classes of failure, not just resolving individual issues

Representation

• Represent SRE and platform engineering in high-visibility and sensitive forums
• Communicate clearly with engineering leadership and partner teams

Responsibilities

The team operates within the Oracle Health Data & Analytics Platform, supporting one of Oracle Health’s core products, HealtheIntent. We operate the big data and streaming infrastructure that enables downstream teams to deliver reliable customer-facing solutions at scale, while continuously improving operability and efficiency.

Required Experience

• 4+ years operating large-scale, customer-facing distributed platforms
• Deep experience with HDFS, YARN, HBase, Kafka, Storm, or similar systems
• Strong background in Linux, networking, and distributed system troubleshooting
• Infrastructure-as-Code using Ansible and Terraform
• Scripting and automation using Python, Ruby, and Bash
• Hands-on experience operating Kerberized environments
• Proven ability to define and document technical architecture for complex systems
• Demonstrated ownership of shared platforms with broad blast radius and multiple downstream consumers
• Experience designing observability and capacity models for distributed platforms

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for a Federal Security Clearance
• 5+ years of technical experience relevant to this position
• Ability to communicate effectively and build rapport with team members
• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $79,100 - $158,200 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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

Career Level - IC3

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