Job Information
Oracle Senior Principal Architect, Chaos Engineering, Oracle SaaS in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Job Description
What You Will Do
The SaaS Continuity Engineering team is responsible for the design and build of the systems and services that enables Oracle to deliver industry-leading availability and performance objectives for Oracle’s SaaS services. The team architects and develops high-availability and service continuity solutions across the entire stack – infrastructure, database, platform, and application services – and all the dependent components. The engineering innovations enable SaaS services to be available to customers without any disruptions during any small or large-scale incidents. We are building the next-gen service continuity solutions in a fast-pace and innovative environment and looking for engineers who can develop chaos engineering solutions that can operate at scale.
Your tasks include:
Design and execute CHAOS experiments to simulate real-world failures and assess system resilience
Design major features and launching them into production
Triage and prioritize issues based on impact and severity
Design services that are highly available, scalable, and redundant.
Balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements.
Understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of being proactive with your teammates.
Career Level - IC5
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or related fields
6+ years software engineering experience in a distributed cloud environment
Proficiency in CHAOS testing methodologies and tools
Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture.
Experience with scalability testing, ensuring applications perform optimally under heavy loads.
Strong understanding of fault injection, latency testing, and stress testing.
Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools to analyze system behavior during CHAOS testing.
Proven track record of identifying and diagnosing system weaknesses through CHAOS testing.
Ability to triage and prioritize issues based on impact and severity.
Creative thinking to devise novel CHAOS scenarios that challenge system robustness.
Effective interpersonal skills to document findings, share insights, and collaborate with partner teams.
Experience working in cross-functional teams to improve system reliability.
Ability to articulate CHAOS testing results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong experience in designing and implementing chaos testing for large scale services
Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (Examples: AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle)
Experience with cloud infrastructure services, regions, and multi-AD designs
Experience collaborating across engineering organizations
Disclaimer:
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range: from $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
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