Principal Big Data Site Reliability Developer (US Citizenship Required) US REMOTE

This role requires U.S. Citizenship and eligibility for a Federal Security Clearance 

Our Team

Building off our Cloud momentum, Oracle has formed a new organization - Oracle Health Data, Analytics Platform. This team will focus on product development and product strategy for Oracle Health, while building out a complete platform supporting modernized, automated healthcare. This is a net new line of business, constructed with an entrepreneurial spirit that promotes an energetic and creative environment. We are unencumbered and will need your contribution to make it a world class engineering center with the focus on excellence. 

Oracle Health Data, Analytics Platform has a rare opportunity to play a critical role in how Oracle Health products impact and disrupt the healthcare industry by transforming how healthcare and technology intersect.

You will have the opportunity to:

Reach billions of people with our products & services

Create technology in which truly impacts the world

Ability to have immediate impact on developing technology

Unlimited growth potential with inspiring work

Work with the best minds in the industry

Enjoy working in an open, diverse, and productive environment

About The Job

This role provides technical leadership for the core data platforms behind Oracle Health’s Data & Analytics Platform. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will own shared, mission-critical systems used by multiple products and teams.

You will lead the design and operation of large-scale, stateful distributed platforms, including Hadoop ecosystem components (HDFS, YARN, HBase) deployed on Oracle Big Data Service (BDS), Kafka, and Storm. These multi-tenant platforms are deployed and operated through Ansible- and Terraform-based automation and require strong architectural ownership to manage scale, change, and broad blast radius.

What You'll Do

Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership

Own the end-to-end reliability, scalability, and operability of shared data platforms

Define platform standards, architectural direction, and operational guardrails

Influence cross-team technical decisions and long-term platform strategy

Drive long-term platform evolution and influence reliability strategy across the data ecosystem

Architecture & Design

Lead platform architecture and design reviews

Clearly articulate system behavior, dependencies, and failure modes

Make principled trade-offs between reliability, performance, cost, and complexity

Provide guidance and guardrails that enable downstream teams to use platforms safely and effectively

Operations Engineering

Establish capacity models, scaling strategies, and operational best practices

Design platforms that behave predictably under load, failure, and change

Own platform lifecycle events: upgrades, expansions, decommissioning, and recovery

Distributed Systems Expertise

Operate and evolve stateful distributed systems where data placement, replication, and recovery are critical

Reason about failure modes such as backpressure, rebalancing, region movement, replication lag, and rolling upgrades

Security

Operate and maintain Kerberized platforms, including authentication, authorization, and secure service-to-service communication

Treat security as a first-class architectural concern

Automation

Design and evolve an Ansible- and Terraform-driven automation framework

Treat automation as production software: versioned, reviewed, tested, and improved

Eliminate operational toil by encoding reliability and safety into the platform

Incident Leadership & Prevention

Serve as the ultimate escalation point for complex or ambiguous incidents

Focus on eliminating entire classes of failure, not just resolving individual issues

Representation

Represent SRE and platform engineering in high-visibility and sensitive forums

Communicate clearly with engineering leadership and partner teams

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

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