Senior Principal Engineer - Database Cloud Oracle
Redwood City, CA

Job Description

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new products/services/processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology. Recommends and justifies major changes to existing products/services/processes. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 or more years of software engineering or related experience.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Consulting Member of Technical Staff (IC5)

Product Development (Database)

Would you like to contribute your own ideas on how to smartly develop large scale distributed Database-as-a-Service offerings for public and private clouds? Oracle's Database development group designs and develops the Database-as-a-Service platform that drives Oracle's Database, Engineered Systems, Oracle Public Cloud, Oracle PaaS and SaaS offerings. This team is a provider of public cloud database and infrastructure management software and helps companies manage platform resources to deliver service, quality and availability, as well as workloads in private and hybrid cloud environments.

https://cloud.oracle.com/database

As a Consulting Member of Technical Staff, you will own and lead software architecture and development for major components of the Database-as-a-Service offerings including Autonomous Transaction Processing on Dedicated infrastructure, Oracle's Engineered systems on public and private clouds. Our product roadmap is an incredibly fun ride if you enjoy challenging problems. You must value simplicity, lightness, and streamlining to be a successful developer for this team. You must have experience with distributed systems that scale well and have participated on teams that have had a collaborative approach to systems architecture as well a high bar for quality and performance. Data Guard experience is preferred for this post.

You will be expected to learn new programming languages, use different open source solutions and Oracle technologies and demonstrate the ability to drive innovation against and with standard technical precepts.

* 12 years of software design and development experience with distributed, highly-scalable, multi-node environments
* Experience working with Cloud infrastructure APIs, REST API model, and developing REST APIs
* Experience with Openstack and/or other Cloud infrastructure products
* Strong Database Management knowledge and understanding of the Database eco-system
* Knowledge of server virtualization technologies like Xen, KVM Linux containers, docker, etc.
* Understanding and experience of Cloud Networking & Security (like Application Firewall, IPSec VPN, NAT, IPv6, remote access and various tunneling protocols) architectures
* Demonstrate advanced experience with Java , C, C as well as strong experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, shell, etc.
* Strong understanding of I/O characteristics and storage systems
* Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
* A background in multi-tenant service offering and concepts on Service Level Availability a strong plus