Principal Data Systems Software Engineer - SRE

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