About the role

What will you do at Oracle?

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.
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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 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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days
from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law,
US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which
involves the collection and processing of their biometric information.
Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized
assessment.
Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and
expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And
with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that
promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company
leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.
True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why
we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with
competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life
insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to
their communities through our volunteer programs.
We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the
employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for
a disability at any point, let us know by emailing
[email protected] [[email protected]] or by
calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.
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.
Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and
conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Which skills does this role require?

Site reliability engineeringDistributed systemsCloud infrastructureObservabilityCapacity planningSite Reliability EngineeringCloud NativeOracle Cloud InfrastructureDistributed SystemsKafkaDisaster RecoveryTop Secret ClearanceSovereign CloudAccessibilityProduct Strategy

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