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