Principal Data Systems Software Engineer, SRE

Oracle

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On-site
Location
Seattle, WAHerndon, VA
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$114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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This role $175k
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This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $151,493–$214,600 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $175k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Principal Data Systems Software Engineer, SRE

The Principal Data Systems Software Engineer - SRE - Top Secret Clearance Required joins a global team responsible for the reliability, availability, and operational excellence of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service. This role involves operating production cloud services for real-time data integration and replication across heterogeneous IT environments. You will monitor service health, lead troubleshooting for complex production issues, and design automation to reduce operational overhead. Key responsibilities include building observability solutions, managing capacity planning, and driving continuous service improvement. The position requires expertise in Networking, Linux Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems, and Software Engineering principles. You will utilize tools and technologies including Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Hudson, and TeamCity, while leveraging Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices to support cloud-native data movement platforms.

What you'll do

  • Operate and support production cloud services for customer migration and data replication workloads.
  • Monitor service health and lead troubleshooting efforts for complex production issues.
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews to drive corrective actions.
  • Act as the ultimate escalation point for critical issues that lack documented standard operating procedures.
  • Partner with software development teams to improve service architecture, reliability, and scalability.
  • Design and implement automation to reduce operational overhead and improve service efficiency.
  • Build and maintain observability solutions including monitoring, alerting, logging, and dashboards.
  • Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, and disaster recovery readiness initiatives.

What we're looking for

  • Must be a US citizen.
  • Must currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
  • 7+ years of production engineering experience (distributed services or cloud platform experience preferred).
  • Proven experience with automation and strong experience in a scripting language like bash or python.
  • Solid understanding of Software Engineering, Computer Science principles, Linux Systems Engineering, Networking, Security, and Storage.
  • Experience with Docker, Infrastructure as Code concepts, and Terraform and/or Ansible.
  • Experience building fully automated CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Hudson, or TeamCity.
  • Experience building and managing cloud services at a major provider (AWS, Azure, GPC, or OCI) is a big plus (preferred).

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