Senior Software Engineer - Exadata Smart Storage (Redwood City, CA - In-person)

Oracle Corporation • Redwood City, CA, United States, US • 2w ago

Job Location: Redwood City, CA (in-person)

We are looking for smart systems software engineers with BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related fields to join the Exadata Team @ Oracle Server Technologies (https://www.oracle.com/engineered-systems/exadata/). Oracle Exadata technology is the newest innovation in Oracle's history as the provider of the industry's number one database technology. Exadata group (Server Technologies Division) is responsible for the development of all aspects of the Exadata Storage Server and Exadata Database Machine which is named as Oracle’s most successful new product.

Team and Product Description:

Oracle Exadata is an enterprise database platform that runs Oracle AI Database workloads of any scale and criticality with high performance, availability, and security. Exadata’s scale-out design employs unique optimizations that let transaction processing, analytics, agentic AI, and mixed workloads run faster and more efficiently. Consolidating diverse Oracle AI Database workloads on Exadata platforms in enterprise data centers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and multicloud environments helps organizations increase operational efficiency, reduce IT administration, and lower costs.

Oracle Exadata technology is the newest innovation in Oracle's history as the provider of the industry's number one database technology. Exadata group (Server Technologies Division) is responsible for the development of all aspects of the Exadata Storage Server and Exadata Database Machine which is named as one of Oracle’s most successful new products. Exadata Database Machine is the only database appliance in the industry that is capable of providing extreme performance for data warehousing, OLTP and consolidated workloads. Built using database and storage software from Oracle and industry standard hardware from Sun/Intel, Exadata Database Machine provides a fully optimized engineered system for best performance, scalability and high availability.

At the heart of every Oracle Exadata Database Machine are the Oracle Exadata Storage Servers. These are smart ‘data aware’ storage servers which provide Smart Scans, Smart Flash Cache, Smart Flash Log, Storage Index, and Hybrid Columnar Compression technologies. The Exadata group is responsible for the development of these innovative technologies that power the entire Exadata family of systems and significant boosts the performance in all perspectives.

Description of the Role:

Design and implement the database and Storage IO data path in Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
Design and implement Exadata Storage Server offload features such as Smart Scan, Storage Index, Columnar Cache, etc. that are responsible for extreme performance of the Storage Server.
Implement software designed to be fault tolerant in the presence of unanticipated software failures
Develop parallel algorithms and distributed systems software that runs on a large-scale database and storage cluster
Work on multiple projects at once in a fast-paced, exciting and rapidly growing environment

Internal Responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree level (BS/MS/PhD): Bachelors/Masters/PhD
Major(s): Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related
Programming languages: C/C++ expertise, Java, Rust
Tools, software, etc.: Development experience on Linux
Preferred coursework: Distributed Systems, Algorithms Design, Parallel Programming, Databases
Other qualifications:
Enthusiasm or strong background to work on large-scale distributed systems. Ability to tackle and debug complex systems problems. Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks, etc. Minimum 1 year of professional experience.

External Responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree level (BS/MS/PhD): Bachelors/Masters/PhD
Major(s): Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related
Programming languages: C/C++ expertise, Java, Rust
Tools, software, etc.: Development experience on Linux
Preferred coursework: Distributed Systems, Algorithms Design, Parallel Programming, Databases
Other qualifications:
Enthusiasm or strong background to work on large-scale distributed systems. Ability to tackle and debug complex systems problems. Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks, etc. Minimum 1 year of professional experience.