Principal Data Systems Software Engineer - SRE Jobs

Principal Site Reliability Engineer 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. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for the operational health, reliability, and continuous improvement of OCI GoldenGate and OCI Database Migration Service. You will: Operate and support production cloud services that power critical customer migration and data replication workloads. Monitor service health, investigate incidents, and lead troubleshooting efforts for complex production issues. Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews while driving corrective and preventative actions. Act as ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).Partner with software development teams to improve service architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational readiness. Design and implement automation to reduce operational overhead and improve service efficiency. Build and maintain observability solutions, including monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboards, and operational metrics. Contribute to capacity planning, performance analysis, disaster recovery readiness, and service resilience initiatives. Support services operating across Oracle Cloud commercial and sovereign cloud environments. Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices to improve deployment consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency. Drive continuous service improvement through operational reviews, reliability initiatives, and engineering best practices. This role provides the opportunity to work on large-scale distributed systems supporting enterprise customers worldwide, helping shape the future of Oracle's cloud-native data movement platform. This role requires Professional curiosity and a desire to develop a deep understanding of services and technologies. The opportunity to work on cloud services that support enterprise customers at global scale. Exposure to complex distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and large-scale operational challenges. A collaborative environment where reliability, automation, and engineering excellence are core priorities. Opportunities to influence service architecture, operational strategy, and platform evolution. Career growth through ownership, technical leadership, and collaboration with world-class engineering teams. Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and flexible work arrangements.