Job DescriptionAs a Consulting Member of Technical Staff in PSR Engineering, you'll drive innovations in performance, scalability, and reliability for Oracle's cutting-edge cloud services. You will collaborate with talented engineers across the company, tackling complex challenges in cloud architecture, automation, observability, and incident resolution. Your expertise will help teams optimize every layer of the stack-from client-side code to multi-tenant backend systems-using advanced tools and practices. You'll play a key role in establishing best practices, mentoring engineers, building automation and toolchains, and ensuring our solutions continually set new standards for user experience, efficiency, and dependability. This is an opportunity to influence Oracle's technology direction and to learn from and share knowledge with industry leaders in a supportive, high-impact engineering environment.
ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities:
- Perform UI client-side performance analysis and collaborate on optimizing client-rendered application responsiveness.
- Analyze and debug complex client-side JavaScript issues for optimal front-end performance.
- Contribute expertise on client-side architecture and development best practices for front-end engineering teams.
- Own the end-to-end performance architecture for cloud services: define SLOs, capacity models, and performance budgets; design for multi-tenant scale, resiliency, and AI/ML workloads.
- Build and evolve the PSR toolchain and automation: tracing, profiling, load/chaos testing, regression detection, and CI/CD performance gates; deliver reusable dashboards and runbooks.
- Diagnose and resolve complex production and pre-prod issues across app, runtime, database, storage, and network layers; lead incident war rooms, RCAs, and drive durable fixes.
- Partner with application, platform, and security teams to optimize latency, throughput, availability, and cost; apply patterns such as caching, backpressure, circuit breaking, and rate limiting.
- Establish reference architectures and best practices; conduct design/code reviews and ensure PSR considerations are baked into architecture decisions.
- Mentor and up-level engineers; provide training on profiling, JFR/heap analysis, SQL tuning, and observability fundamentals.
- Evaluate and benchmark emerging technologies; recommend adoption aligned with enterprise security, privacy, and compliance standards.
- Define and report PSR KPIs (p95/p99 latency, throughput, error rate, saturation, availability) and communicate progress to engineering and leadership.
Required Qualifications:
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems; deep expertise with Java/JVM and one or more of: Go, Python, or C/C++.
- Extensive expertise in client-side UI performance analysis and optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct in-depth JavaScript performance profiling and troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of client-side development internals and modern frontend architecture.
- Experience with SPA (Single Page Application) UI architecture and performance tuning using frameworks such as Angular, React, or KnockOut
- Strong database performance skills (SQL design, indexing, query plans, vector search), caching, streaming, OS and networking fundamentals.
- Cloud services, AI/ML, micro-service experience.
- Hands-on with observability (OpenTelemetry, metrics/logging), JFR/jcmd/profilers tuning, and load/chaos testing.
- Experience with containers/Kubernetes, service mesh, CI/CD, ML-Ops, DevSecOps, and cost/performance optimization in public cloud.
- Extensive full stack development and troubleshooting experience with a performance engineering focus, including both frontend and backend systems.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical guidance and influence architecture and design choices.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), Docker, Helm, scalable database solutions, and contemporary AI/ML frameworks.
- Deep understanding of application and infrastructure product development processes.
- Published papers, patents, or open-source contributions related to cloud, databases, or AI.
- Experience ensuring compliance and security in enterprise solutions.
QualificationsDisclaimer:
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 onlyUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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.
Career Level - IC5
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