Principal Site Reliability Engineer

The successful candidate will serve as a senior technical authority, establish reliability standards, guide complex technical decisions, and lead improvements that reduce operational risk and manual effort. This individual must be comfortable moving between architecture and hands-on execution, including accessing deployed hosts, troubleshooting failed services, reviewing logs, correcting configurations, and validating production changes.
Designs and architects infrastructure and service to ensure reliability and functionality. Forecasts demands and responds to capacity needs. Collaborates with software development teams to develop reliable and scalable infrastructures. Exercises judgment when performing data collection to maintain and optimize operations and reliability. Leverages advanced knowledge to perform incident response and/or maintenance tasks. Provides comprehensive health and performance reporting. Identifies and recommends opportunities for automation. Communicates comprehensive information about services and proactively anticipates and articulates the potential impact of changes. Provides comprehensive support for technology and documents incidents. Conducts advanced experiments with new tools and develops and maintains advanced knowledge of site reliability trends.
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: $84,900 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.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.
Key Responsibilities
Design and architect reliable, secure, scalable, and maintainable infrastructure and services. Take proactive steps to ensure solutions meet defined reliability and functionality requirements.
Establish technical direction, engineering standards, and operational best practices across complex infrastructure and application environments.
Identify system dependencies, operational risks, capacity constraints, performance issues, and potential failure points before they affect service.
Translate business, client, security, and application requirements into practical infrastructure and reliability solutions.
Lead the installation, configuration, deployment, and validation of applications across Windows Server and Linux environments.
Oversee structured builds and deployments using runbooks, scripts, readiness assessments, change controls, and post-deployment validation.
Troubleshoot complex operating system, service, application, installation, patching, permissions, certificate, and connectivity issues.
Define and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, observability, capacity planning, and service-health practices.
Develop and promote automation that reduces manual effort, improves consistency, and lowers operational risk.
Own the administration, governance, and continuous improvement of an enterprise infrastructure automation platform, including maintaining automation standards, enabling engineering teams, and driving adoption of scalable, repeatable infrastructure management practices.
Lead operating system, middleware, and application patching initiatives, including change planning, rollback preparation, execution, and validation.
Direct major incident response, root cause analysis, corrective-action planning, and prevention of recurring failures.
Partner with cybersecurity teams on vulnerability remediation, system hardening, STIG compliance, and other security-driven changes.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve reliability, resilience, security, and operational efficiency.
Create and maintain technical standards, architecture documentation, runbooks, deployment procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and design guidance to engineers across multiple teams.
Communicate technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and recommendations clearly to leadership and stakeholders.
Core Skills and Qualifications
Technical Leadership and Architecture
Extensive experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure architecture, production operations, or application hosting.
Demonstrated ability to design and support highly available, resilient, and secure enterprise systems.
Experience leading complex technical initiatives across engineering, operations, security, networking, and application teams.
Ability to make sound architectural decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and communicate recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.