Job Description

The Virtual Operating System (VOS) development group provides a portable and high-performance platform for the Oracle Database. VOS is the platform upon which the database and the database cloud is built.

We define abstractions and develop infrastructure modules that provide process/thread/user-threads management and scheduling, memory management, heap management, synchronization support, CPU/GPU and I/O resource allocation, placement and management, cloud interfacing and management, bin packing, machine learning, intercluster and interprocess communication, high-performance file and storage I/O, event model, statistics, data representation, compression, encryption, persistent memory programming model and more for autonomous cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud, onprem environments.

Our management hierarchy is entirely technical, developers who worked on these modules are still with the company for over 20+ years and have become Vice President, Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President and still actively participate in design discussion and refer to code that was developed by them.

Career Level - IC3

Responsibilities

Join our dynamic team at Oracle, the undisputed leader in the global market for relational database management systems (RDBMS) software. We dominate the industry with over twice the market share of our closest competitor.

At Oracle, we're revolutionizing data management with our groundbreaking Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud. It's the world's first autonomous data management solution in the cloud, handling everything from patching and upgrades to routine maintenance tasks—all without the need for human intervention. This self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing database cloud eliminates manual management and reduces the risk of human error. Unlike traditional database clouds, which are prone to vulnerabilities and require manual tuning, our autonomous solution delivers unprecedented efficiency and savings through automation.

We're leveraging the power of machine learning to redefine data management. Our aim is to maintain Oracle's unrivaled position in the database market by achieving top-notch performance across a wide range of platforms and harnessing the latest technologies.

We take pride in ensuring that the Oracle database remains at the forefront on every cloud and platform, whether it's clustered Linux blade servers or the most powerful SMP servers with over 100 cores and 16-32TB of DRAM. We specialize in developing platform-specific interfaces that make the most of OS-specific features, such as NUMA-aware memory allocation, persistent memory, dynamic reconfiguration, user-mode threads, cloud computing, encryption, compression, and virtualization.

Our team is almost always deeply involved in every new frontier Oracle steps into like, taking the latest example, the cutting-edge Vector Database which was recently announced at Oracle Cloud World. We conduct in-depth evaluations of emerging technologies like Infiniband for high-throughput, low-latency interconnectivity, TSX, offload engines, and state-of-the-art microprocessors such as Intel Cascade Lake and ARM. Often, our insights lead to hardware enhancements that significantly boost Oracle database performance and scalability.

We're not just about maintaining the status quo—we actively collaborate with OS, hardware, and storage vendors to introduce new interfaces and stay abreast of their product roadmaps. This allows us to continually propose improvements that enhance database performance and functionality, setting new benchmarks in the industry.

If you're passionate about shaping the future of data management and want to be part of a team that's at the forefront of innovation, join us at Oracle. Together, we'll continue to lead the way in the database market, driving efficiency, savings, and performance to new heights.

Oracle is the overall leader in the worldwide relational database management systems (RDBMS) software market. Oracle is the industry's most popular database by more than a two to one margin over its nearest competitor.

Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud is the world’s first autonomous data management in the cloud to deliver automated patching, upgrades, and tuning—including performing all routine database maintenance tasks while the system is running—without human intervention. This new autonomous database cloud is self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing, which helps to eliminate manual database management and human errors. Traditional database clouds are manually managed and tuned, subject to human error, and easily exposed to costly security vulnerabilities, making the promise of cloud savings and efficiency unattainable. Oracle is using machine learning to revolutionize data management with the introduction of the world’s first autonomous database cloud, delivering more automation for more savings.

Achieving high performance on a broad variety of platforms and exploiting new technologies are important to maintaining Oracle's current and future leadership position in the database market.

We ensure that the Oracle database is a market leader on all cloud and platforms, from clustered Linux blade servers to the largest SMP servers (100+ cores and more than 16-32TB of DRAM). We define interfaces to the platform-specific layer that exploit OS-specific functionality, such as NUMA-aware memory allocation, persistent memory, dynamic reconfiguration, user-mode threads, cloud-computing, encryption, compression and virtualization.

Our evaluations of leading technologies such as Infiniband, as high throughput low latency interconnect, TSX, offload-engines, and leading-edge microprocessors like Intel-Cascade Lake, ARM, often lead to hardware enhancements that improve Oracle database performance and scalability.

We often recommend introduction of new interfaces operating system and storage vendors. We continuously collaborate with hardware/OS/storage vendors to understand their roadmaps and to propose improvements for better database performance and functionality.

Responsibilities for a developer in the VOS area include designing and developing database kernel abstractions and modules to introduce new service foundation functionality or enhance scalability and performance, interfacing with other database developers to gather requirements for introducing new functionality and improving the database kernel, collaborating with OS/hardware/Cloud vendors and the performance group on high-profile benchmarks, and providing systems expertise to the database division.

Through us, one gets an opportunity to interact with the various group in DB division, designers and architects in Cloud, Operating System and Hardware vendors and influence future software and hardware designs and roadmaps.

We seek strong analytical and problem-solving skills, parallel programming, multi-threaded programming, coursework in operating systems, storage systems and computer architecture (yeah!, the low level stuff), and proficiency in C or C++. If you enjoy solving complex software problems and learning about new technologies, talk to us!

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 $74,800 to $178,200 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.

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