Principal Software Engineer, Platform

Responsibilites: Lead engineering and operational management for highly available, large-scale Oracle database fleets. Drive Oracle 19c performance analysis, complex tuning, diagnostics, and reliability improvements. Design and implement database architecture, access methods, allocation strategies, validation controls, protection, and security standards. Build scalable fleet-management automation and tooling using Python and/or Shell scripting. Lead technical analysis for database upgrades, patches, enhancements, and architectural changes. Define long-range database capacity, availability, and operational requirements with OCI service owners. Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and prevention initiatives for complex production issues. Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and establish operational best practices and runbooks. Collaborate with Compute, Storage, Networking, Governance, and other OCI teams to deliver resilient cloud services. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 6–8 years of Oracle Database Engineering, Administration, SRE experience. Deep expertise with Oracle 19c, including RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, ASM, SQL optimization, performance diagnostics, and HA/DR design. Strong Python and/or Shell scripting experience for automation, diagnostics, monitoring, and operational tooling. Demonstrated experience leading complex database changes, upgrades, and reliability initiatives. Strong understanding of database security, observability, capacity planning, and cloud-scale operations. Proven technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills. Excellent written and spoken English, critical thinking, and ability to operate effectively in a demanding environment. Leads platform projects crossing multiple teams, evolving runtimes or middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. Diagnoses and resolves complex cross-service issues; enforces versioning, compatibility, and safe rollout practices. Drives observability standards, capacity planning, and resilience patterns across several workloads. Produces migration guides and adoption playbooks that raise ecosystem consistency and developer experience. 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: $104,500 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.