Commission Oracle Performance Tuning Jobs in Snoqualmie, WA

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more.

At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We're embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as canonical implementation of core components for data planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating our expertise on building low level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI.

For this role, we are looking for technical leaders to build and deliver a key-value store that supports billions of keys and millions of requests per second at sub-millisecond latencies. This an exciting opportunity to deliver a new OCI service from scratch and work with senior architects and leaders at OCI. You must be self-motivated engineer with passion and expertise in solving challenging system, data-plane level and performance problems. You should be a rock solid developer able to dive deep into low-level systems, design broad distributed system interactions for high performance, high scale data-planes. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

Responsibilities 

We are seeking a Relational Database Automation Senior Principal Engineer to design and build the next-generation platform responsible for managing one of the world's largest fleets of Oracle databases.

This role focuses on safely automating the full lifecycle of mission-critical database environments, including provisioning, cluster creation, replication, safe and reliable failover, monitoring, diagnostics, configuration management, performance tuning, workload / heat management, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, and operational remediation.

The successful candidate will help modernize and evolve an existing platform while designing a new automation architecture in Java that can scale database operations across more than 100 OCI regions with minimal human intervention.

This is not an application development role. Success is measured by operational scalability, automation, reliability, and the ability to safely manage mission-critical Oracle database fleets at global scale.

What You'll Do

Design large-scale database fleet management and automation, including workflows and orchestration.
Build systems that automate database provisioning, upgrades, patching, replication, monitoring, diagnostics, and lifecycle management.
Develop automation frameworks that reduce operational dependence on manual DBA processes.
Define operational standards for reliability, observability, governance, and database lifecycle management.
Lead modernization efforts that transition existing operational systems to highly automated platforms.
Design safe migration strategies for mission-critical production environments.
Improve scalability and operational efficiency across a rapidly growing global database footprint.
Partner with engineering and operations teams to ensure safe deployment and operation of database infrastructure.
Drive technical direction for database automation, fleet management, and operational excellence initiatives.

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Disclaimer:
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Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $135,200 to $306,400 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.

Career Level - IC5

8+ years of database engineering or platform experience.
Deep expertise in Oracle Database administration, operations, and automation.
Experience operating and managing large fleets of Oracle databases at enterprise scale.
Strong knowledge of Oracle RAC, Data Guard, Exadata, Enterprise Manager, backup/recovery, upgrades, and performance tuning.
Proven success building database automation platforms and operational tooling.
Experience automating large-scale database lifecycle management processes.
Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, Ansible, Kubernetes, observability platforms, and automation technologies.
Experience leading platform modernization and operational transformation initiatives.
Strong understanding of operational risk management and change control in mission-critical environments.
Experience safely migrating complex systems from manual operational models to highly automated platforms.