Database Internal Developer ( C/C ) Oracle
Redwood City, CA

Job Description

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Provide leadership and expertise in the development of new products/services/processes, frequently operating at the leading edge of technology. Recommends and justifies major changes to existing products/services/processes. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 or more years of software engineering or related experience.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

There is a lot of excitement around NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Cassandra. We are designing a database that will supersede them all by combining the best of NoSQL and NewSQL. This will be the key infrastructure that will run tomorrow's cloud-scale applications. Our goal is to do this while providing the enterprise capabilities that Oracle is known for.

The database cloud architecture that we are designing makes a set of globally distributed database shards appear to database clients as a single, highly available and scalable virtual database. This new architecture will optimize the performance of a wide variety of applications through intelligent utilization of globally distributed resources and by transparently routing client work requests to the proper shards.

This is an opportunity for you to join the team that is setting the new standard for massively scalable and available databases. Pretty cool!

We are looking for highly motivated and talented individuals who want to make significant contributions to a highly visible and strategic project by solving complex problems in networking, distributed computing, high availability and extreme scalability. Experience and/or interest in replication technologies, load balancing algorithms, and design trade-offs among consistency, availability and performance in distributed systems is desired, as are the following skills:

Highly proficient in C. Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL a plus

Background in relational database and operating system concepts

Good understanding of concurrent programming concepts

Strong software engineering and debugging skills

Ability to work under tight deadlines and yet deliver a quality product

Ability to work with a group that is geographically dispersed

The Database Sharding group is part of the Database Systems group, which is responsible for high availability, replication and other system technologies.