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Oracle lists this Principal Data Systems Software Engineer (Automation, CI/CD Tools) opportunity in seattle, Washington. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
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About the team
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) GoldenGate is looking for a Site Reliability Developer to join our Service Team. The ideal candidate should have broad working knowledge across multiple domains, but we love to see specialization as well. The basics we expect are: Networking, Linux Systems Engineering, Software Engineering/Automation, and Distributed Systems.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
Description
GoldenGate Service is a new multi-tenant, cloud native service for real-time data integration and replication in heterogeneous IT environments. GoldenGate enables users to replicate and integrate data from different sources, including operational and analytics data, as well as real-time data streaming such as Apache Kafka. This service is expected to scale across thousands of tenants and enable transactional change data capture, data replication, transformations between systems. This cost effective data replication solution is engineered for highest performance and availability to run variety of data integration uses cases of the customers. This is a global team with locations in US, Hungary, Mexico and Oracle's India Development Centre (IDC) Bangalore.
Our team owns the reliability, availability, operational excellence, and customer experience of these services. We work closely with software development, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to ensure our services remain secure, resilient, and highly available as adoption continues to grow across commercial and sovereign cloud environments.There is a high degree of autonomy required in this role and we are looking for engineers who want to help drive our roadmap.
This role offers the opportunity to solve complex distributed systems challenges, influence service reliability at scale, and contribute to cloud services used by enterprise customers around the world.
The ideal candidate will be technically strong and get a lot done. Automation is a core tenet for everything you do. You've made life easier and have motivated your team to make both process and service improvements.
Candidates should have broad working knowledge across multiple domains, but we love to see specialization as well. The basics we expect are: Networking, Linux Systems Engineering, Software Engineering/Automation, and Distributed Systems.
Learn more about OCI GoldenGate.
Experience/Qualifications:
* This position requires that the candidate selected be a US citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
* 7+ years production engineering experience (distributed services or cloud platform experience preferred)
* Proven experience with automation and strong experience in a scripting language (bash, python, etc)
* Solid understanding of Software Engineering and Computer Science principles
* Solid foundation in Linux Systems Engineering
* Solid understanding of Networking, Security and Storage
* Experience with Docker
* Understanding Infrastructure as Code concept
* Experience with Terraform and/or Ansible
* Experience in building fully automated CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Hudson, TeamCity, etc)
* Be able to understand and formulate meaningful KPIs and business metrics
* Experience in building/managing/operating cloud services at one of the big cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GPC or OCI) is a big plus
Responsibilities
What You'll Do
As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the operational health, reliability, and continuous improvement of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service.
You will:
* Operate and support production cloud services that power critical customer migration and data replication workloads.
* Monitor service health, investigate incidents, and lead troubleshooting efforts for complex production issues.
* Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews while driving corrective and preventative actions.
* Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
* Partner with software development teams to improve service architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational readiness.
* Design and implement automation to reduce operational overhead and improve service efficiency.
* Build and maintain observability solutions, including monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, and operational metrics.
* Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, disaster recovery readiness, and service resilience initiatives.
* Support services operating across Oracle Cloud commercial and sovereign cloud environments.
* Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices to improve deployment consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
* Drive continuous service improvement through operational reviews, reliability initiatives, and engineering best practices.
This role provides the opportunity to work on large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise customers worldwide, helping shape the future of Oracle's cloud-native data movement platform. This role requires Professional curiosity and a desire to a develop deep understanding of services and technologies.
What We Offer
* The opportunity to work on cloud services that support enterprise customers at global scale.
* Exposure to complex distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and large-scale operational challenges.
* A collaborative environment where reliability, automation, and engineering excellence are core priorities.
* Opportunities to influence service architecture, operational strategy, and platform evolution.
* Career growth through ownership, technical leadership, and collaboration with world-class engineering teams.
* Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and flexible work arrangements.
Qualifications
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to
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