Software Developer 5 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.

Storage management is an essentially part of a database system. Automatic Storage Management (ASM) powers the various offerings of the Oracle Database, both on premise and on the Oracle Cloud. These offerings include the Oracle Autonomous Cloud, the Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), the Oracle Database Machine (Exadata), and the Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA). ASM is the highly available, highly scalable, and easily manageable storage solution that is central to all these database systems.

The ASM product at its foundation is both a file system and a volume manager. The former supports millions of files and containers, while the latter supports tens of thousands of disk, flash, or NVMe devices. ASM operates in a cluster environment, where several compute nodes can share the duties of managing the file system, allowing it to stay operational even when some of the nodes become unavailable. ASM uses a distributed consensus algorithm to identify its storage, a transaction processing and cache fusion model to manage its metadata, and algorithms to achieve load balance and mirroring, so that access is fast, and data are highly available. ASM also allows storage capacity to be scaled up and old storage decommissioned, without interrupting database or application services, by dynamically relocating data across storage devices. Latest features include a service that allows flexible and independent storage provisioning and management from databases, an infrastructure to scale storage to hundreds of clusters across networks, the ability to use RAID 5 and 6 for redundancy, and the capability to take point-in-time clones of data files to be used for snapshots.