Senior Data Systems Software Engineer - Exadata Database
Oracle, Redwood City, California
- Pay
- $85K–$210K / year
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- 3 days ago
About the role
Exadata is Oracle's flagship engineered system and the foundation of the world's most advanced database platform. All Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) database services are built on Exadata, and the same platform underpins Oracle's multi-cloud partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Exadata also powers Oracle Cloud@Customer and high-performance on-premises database systems.
The Exadata team builds the software that drives Oracle's highest-performance database systems for mission-critical OLTP, analytics, and cloud workloads. Exadata is the only database platform engineered end-to-end for extreme performance, scalability, and availability, integrating Oracle database and storage software with industry-leading hardware technologies.
The Exadata platform powers many petabyte-scale databases across on-premises environments and multiple clouds, delivering query throughput beyond 1 TB/s and tens of millions of transactions per second. Its architecture is built for massive scalability and extreme performance, capable of completing OLTP transactions in under 20 microseconds and supporting multi-tenant cloud workloads spanning thousands of databases.
Career Level: IC2 / IC3 / IC4
RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibilities:
As a member of the Exadata software engineering team, you will:
- Develop core software for Oracle Database and Exadata, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for large on-prem and cloud environments.
- Collaborate with various cloud teams to deliver stable, high-performance systems.
Job Requirements:
- BS / MS / PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Strong background in distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and storage systems.
- Strong C/C++ programming skills.
- Experience developing on Linux platform.
- 1-7 years of software development experience.
- Solid understanding of computer architecture, memory hierarchy, I/O, concurrency, etc.
- Experience in databases is a plus
- Experience in Rust programming language is a plus
Must be able & willing to work a minimum of 3 days in the Redwood City, CA office. Relocation assistance available.
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QUALIFICATIONS
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $85,400 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
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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