Principal Member of Technical Staff

The Company

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Oracle’s commitment to R&D is a driving factor in the development of technologies that have kept Oracle at the forefront of the computer industry. If you are passionate about advanced development and working on the next-generation large-scale distributed systems for the most popular open source database in the world, which is optimized for the cloud providing the best performance, we would like to talk with you.

What you will do:

HeatWave is a fully-managed database service, powered by the integrated in-memory query accelerator. It is the only cloud-native database service that combines transactions, analytics, and machine learning services into HeatWave, delivering real-time, secure analytics without the complexity, latency, and cost of ETL duplication. It also includes HeatWave Lakehouse which allows users to query data stored in object storage in a variety of file formats. It is developed, managed, and supported by the MySQL team in Oracle. Join us to help further develop this amazing technology.

This cutting edge technology serves critical business needs, which is changing the way data transactions function, all over the world. You will make a technical impact on the world with the work you do.

Join a fun and flexible workplace where you’ll enhance your skills and build a solid professional foundation. As a Principal Cloud Operations Developer for Oracle's Heatwave Service team you will contribute to an exciting team working on one of the hottest cloud services. You will use your skills to learn how to constantly deliver and improve on this tremendous cloud services. Operations work will include troubleshooting production issues and handling requests for upgrades, patches or modifications. When not working on operations you will be working on software engineering tasks such as review of incidents to drive  improvement of services, tools or runbooks to increase our reliability, scalability and reduce operational overhead through automation, training, documentation, service enhancement, or process.  This position has the opportunity to leverage and learn the ins and outs of current cloud service architecture, deployment, monitoring and operational technologies. There are many useful and desirable skills which will be acquired if not already present. See below for the many cool and current technologies in play.  The ideal candidate has some of the many skills, but key is the motivation and ability to learn quickly as well as a passion for an excellent customer experience. Learn more at https://www.mysql.com/products/heatwave/

Career Level - IC4

Engineer will:

• Improve monitoring, notifications and configuration of Heatwave services.
• Gain a deep technical understanding of OCI services and be able to drive the technical direction of the team, working with cross-functional, cross-service teams.
• Incident Management
  • Perform proactive service checks and monitor/triage and address incoming system/application alerts, email and phone calls to ensure appropriate priority and response SLAS are met.
  • Triage and troubleshoot service impacting events from multiple signals including phone, email, service telemetry and alerting.
• Process Improvement
  • Identify process gaps and build mechanisms to scale.
  • Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity.
  • Develop functional specifications, then drive the delivery in a successful and timely manner.
  • Enhance technical capability by learning and educating the team on new features based on the product roadmap.
• Operations
  • May need to act as an Operations manager in managing team schedule, oversee operational activities and be available during on-call rotations.
  • Provide feedback to development teams about operations administration dashboards functionality and UIs.
  • Assist and communicate with management in decision-making, program management, and initiative implementation.
  • Oversee daily operations through collaboration with senior management and department leaders, performing an array of business operations functions from generating communications and presentations, and planning and coordinating meetings.
• Cross team collaboration
  • Identify and work with engineering to implement opportunities for automation, signal noise reduction, recurring issues and other actions to reduce time to mitigate service impacting events and increase the productivity of cloud operations and development resources.
  • Coordinate, document and track critical incidents ensuring rapid and complete issue resolution and an appropriate closed loop to customers and other key stakeholders. 
  • Improve the availability, scalability, latency, ease of use, and efficiency of service control plans and operational tooling.
  • Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Coach and mentor peers.
• Support secondary Heatwave on AWS cloud service as per business requirement.
• Potentially participate in regular rotations as a central part of the 24x7 operations team, Includes rotational work on weekends, Public Holidays, US East/West timezone shifts.
• Need to be reliable in terms of working scheduled hours.
• Need to be motivated quick learners.
   

Desired skills include

Cloud specific skills which are not strictly limited to:

• Extensive experience with OCI or equivalent Cloud services (e.g.: IAM, Compute, Load Balancer, Object Storage, Health Monitor).

General skills for working in this operational role:

• Experienced understanding of serverless cloud architectures.
• Experienced with Python programming and bash scripting.
• Experienced with MySQL database, SQL query interface, general database concepts.
• Experienced with Linux system administration knowledge and experience and familiarity with Linux troubleshooting and internals.
• Familiarity with Networking concepts.
• Work productively in a fast-paced, team-oriented agile environment.
• Contribute to operational activities such as writing runbooks, troubleshooting, operations automation, and instrumentation for metrics and events.
• Good technical writing and communication skills. Engineers will need to be able to clearly write descriptions of operational issues and corrective actions for incidents.
• Extensive experience with Agile methodology (Scrum or Kanban).
• Very strong analytical skills to identify problem root causes.
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams like Development, QA, Product management, etc.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, combined with a strong sense of ownership and drive in resolving operations issues.
• Experience working under pressure to mitigate customer issues affecting service reliability, data integrity, and overall customer experience.
• Monitoring, management, analysis and troubleshooting of large-scale, distributed systems.
• BS/BE or MS/Mtech degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Hardware Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
• 8+ years of work experience as a a Senior/Principal software/site reliability engineer or Principal/Senior customer support engineer.

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Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

CA: Hiring Range in CAD from: $90,300 to $167,600 per annum.


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.
 

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