Are you ready to thrive in an environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to innovate? If you love tackling fast-paced, complex problems and delivering creative, high-impact solutions, this could be your perfect role!

Join the renowned Database Sustaining Engineering team—the backbone of Oracle’s product excellence both in the Cloud and on-premises. As the trusted experts for diagnosing and resolving issues across virtually all Oracle Database Kernel stack, we’re at the forefront of maintaining, enhancing, and advancing mission-critical systems used by the world’s leading companies.

What makes this team special?

• Real Impact, High Stakes: From keeping major airline, bank, and e-commerce platforms running to supporting nearly all Fortune 500 companies, our work matters. When the stakes are high, our team steps in to deliver swift, innovative solutions at the source code level—often with millions of dollars on the line.
• Constant Variety and Challenge: Every day is different. You’ll investigate unexpected product behaviors, deep-dive into complex codebases, collaborate with Oracle Support and Cloud Operations, and design enhancements that strengthen resilience and diagnostics in our products.
• See Immediate Results: There’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of restoring a critical system and knowing your work keeps global business moving.
• Learn from the Best: Join a dedicated team with a wealth of experience—many of our experts have been here over a decade—and continuously grow alongside them.
• Customer Focused: Our work is at the intersection of engineering and customer experience. You’ll develop a keen understanding of how our products are used in the real world, and your solutions will have a direct and visible impact on customer satisfaction and product quality.

What are we looking for?

• Fast learners who are energized by complexity and ambiguity.
• Motivated problem-solvers who think creatively under pressure.
• Great communicators with a passion for technical excellence and customer success.
• Individuals eager for continuous growth in a high-impact, ever-evolving environment.

If you’re seeking meaningful technical challenges and are excited by the opportunity to shape the future of Oracle’s world-class software, we’d love to meet you.

Join us and never have a dull moment—your expertise will help power the systems that run the world!

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Design, develop, enhance, and troubleshoot features and issues in the Oracle RDBMS kernel, driving innovation and reliability at the core.

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Career Level - IC4

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Responsibilities:

Are you ready to make your mark at the core of Oracle’s groundbreaking Database technology? Join us and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our industry-leading Cloud services!

• Drive Innovation & Impact: Tackle challenging improvements and resolve critical defects in the Database kernel stack—the heart of Oracle’s success—directly impacting Cloud solutions and millions of customers worldwide.
• Collaborate with the Best: Work alongside a dynamic team of passionate, high-achieving developers dedicated to delivering top-quality results on time, every time.
• End-to-End Ownership: Take charge of your own module, from design and implementation all the way through major enhancements and bug fixes.
• Deep Technical Exposure: Gain invaluable experience with product development processes, code deep dives, advanced testing strategies, and critical design decisions—while partnering with senior developers and architects from multiple teams.
• Shape the Future: Identify and champion new approaches for automating problem-solving, streamlining triage, and delivering smarter resolutions.
• Global Collaboration: Thrive in a truly international environment, collaborating across teams and sharing your work in high-visibility development forums.

If you’re passionate about innovation, collaboration, and building the future of cloud-based and on-premise database solutions, we want to hear from you!

Qualifications:

• BE/ME or equivalent in Computer Science or an equivalent area.
• 7 to 10 years of software development experience.

Required Skills:

• Expert software development knowledge in C (or CPP) programming language, server/systems level experience in large enterprise class software.
• Excellent understanding of System Architecture and Implementation experience in working/released products with high complexity.
• Good Operating systems knowledge with concepts related to Processes, Memory Management (also Shared Memory), File Systems, TCP/IPC Networking concepts etc.
• Working knowledge of fault tolerant systems and ability to understand exception case handling.
• Excellent debugging and problem solving experience on Linux/Unix environments, along with ability to identify product improvements.
• Excellent analytical capabilities and logical reasoning skills.
• Working knowledge of processing large amount of product diagnostics/logs/traces to generate meaningful analytics.
• Knowledge of Project Management concepts/software (Jira, Sprints, etc.) and ability to multi-task and deal with shifting priorities.
• Should have excellent written (including product documentation) and verbal (with presentation) communication skills.

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Working Knowledge of C Compiler, instructions optimization, etc.
• Working experience in Database kernel internals.
• Working experience of Cloud environment and processes.
• Working experience in debugging basic networking problems and analyzing TCP dumps.