Principal Data Systems Software Engineer (Automation)

Salary: $114,600 - 234,600 per year Requirements:

• U.S. citizenship and an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility, which must be maintained
• 7+ years of production engineering experience; distributed services or cloud platform experience is preferred
• Proven automation experience and strong scripting skills in a language such as Bash or Python
• Solid understanding of software engineering and computer science principles
• Strong foundation in Linux systems engineering
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and storage
• Experience with Docker
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code concepts
• Experience with Terraform and/or Ansible
• Experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, or TeamCity
• Ability to understand and develop meaningful KPIs and business metrics
• Experience building, managing, or operating cloud services with AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI is a plus
• Broad knowledge across networking, Linux systems engineering, software engineering and automation, and distributed systems; specialization is also valued

• Operate and support production cloud services that power customer migration and data replication workloads
• Monitor service health, investigate incidents, and lead troubleshooting for complex production issues
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews, and drive corrective and preventative actions
• Serve as the escalation point for complex or critical issues that are not yet covered by standard operating procedures
• Partner with software development teams to improve service architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational readiness
• Design and implement automation to reduce operational effort 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
• Support services across Oracle Cloud commercial and sovereign cloud environments
• Apply Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices to improve deployment consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Drive ongoing service improvements through operational reviews, reliability initiatives, and engineering best practices

• AWS
• Ansible
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• GCP
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Linux
• Oracle
• Python
• Security
• Teamcity
• Terraform

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We are collaborating with hackajob to connect exceptional professionals with Oracle. Our OCI GoldenGate Service Team is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to support the reliability, availability, operational excellence, and customer experience of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service. GoldenGate is a cloud-native, multi-tenant service for real-time data integration and replication across varied systems, including streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka. Our global team works across the U.S., Hungary, Mexico, and Oracles India Development Centre in Bangalore, partnering with software development, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing teams. This autonomous role offers the chance to shape our roadmap and work on large-scale distributed systems serving enterprise customers worldwide. We offer competitive compensation, potentially including bonus, equity, and deferred compensation; comprehensive benefits; and flexible work arrangements. The U.S. hiring range is $114,600–$234,600 per year, with placement based on factors such as skills, experience, location, market conditions, and internal equity. Benefits include health and insurance coverage, retirement savings with company match, paid leave and holidays, parental leave, adoption assistance, an employee stock purchase plan, and other financial and voluntary benefits. Certain U.S.-based or customer-facing roles may have applicable health or drug-testing requirements. U.S.-based employees complete identity verification during onboarding, including biometric information processing, with accommodations potentially available following an individualized assessment.

last updated 41 week of 2026