Robotics Engineer - Autonomous Data Center Systems

Oracle is a leading company that combines data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to drive industry innovations. The Robotics Engineer - Autonomous Data Center Systems will lead the architecture and optimization of hyper-scale distributed systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability while implementing advanced automation and security measures.

Responsibilities:

• Provide visionary leadership in the architecture of highly scalable distributed systems across various businesses, ensuring horizontal and vertical scalability and overall performance, including leveraging distributed state management tools
• Resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks to drive significant optimizations and improvements for hyper-scale code and/or systems, leading to industry-leading performance
• Define a new set of industry standards for scalability requirements
• Design systems across the organization to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down)
• Advocate for innovation and improvements to data plane platforms
• Evaluate whether systems are meeting nonfunctional scalability requirements, and proactively anticipate growing business needs across the organization
• Lead the design and implementation of highly sophisticated fault-tolerant systems across the organization capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing innovative redundancy, replication, and automatic failover capabilities
• Leverage expertise to oversee the design of interdependent systems that effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance
• Lead the optimization and identification of novel and innovative techniques to manage network unreliability
• Leverage industry insights to design interdependent systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), setting new standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the organization
• Set organizational standards for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems
• Innovate and implement new approaches across the organization for creating and customizing dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to proactively ensure system health and reliability
• Proactively evaluate and design system functionality for future products or businesses still in conception
• Design and implement chaos testing strategies to evaluate system resilience and durability, and help drive cross-team integration of chaos testing to support the CI/CD pipeline
• Evaluate innovative industry standards and techniques for verifying correctness
• Publish and present across the organization on advanced formal verification techniques for system design correctness
• Create novel strategies across the organization for data replication and synchronization to ensure data integrity and availability
• Provide thought leadership in diagnosing, debugging, and resolving complex issues in active, interdependent systems across the organization to support ongoing operation
• Oversee strategic initiatives to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues
• Maintain deep expertise in dependencies, dependents, and owned systems across the organization to drive effective troubleshooting and performance
• Set standards for operational readiness and standard operating procedures across the organization, and hold third-party partners accountable for meeting those standards
• Identify innovative and novel approaches for managing incident response and root cause investigations that lead to long-term solutions
• Lead the design and implementation of advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, setting organizational standards
• Lead execution of strategic remediation plans to address identified security gaps and ensure continuous improvement
• Oversee efforts to ensure cloud infrastructure is in compliance with industry standards and regulations, and guide documentation efforts across the organization
• Lead the development of state-of-the-art automation tools and strategies (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC))
• Design strategies for effective change management of patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and design interdependent systems across the organization to allow for automation of these processes
• Oversee timelines, deliverables, and budgets where applicable for projects or initiatives in the line of business that achieve critical business objectives, ensuring milestones are completed efficiently and in alignment with requirements; set priorities at an organizational level and adjust as needed to accommodate resource or timeline changes, aligned with business needs
• Drive collaboration across multiple lines of business and external stakeholders to influence alignment on expectations, strategic objectives, and proposed solutions; cultivate strategic partnerships with senior business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, pursuing opportunities for expanding partnerships and ensuring long-term organizational success; promote a culture of transparency and inclusivity where all voices are valued and respected
• Serve as a technical expert and resource across the line of business to resolve high-impact, ambiguous, or novel issues using advanced methodologies and techniques; drive strategic problem-solving initiatives, leveraging information and/or data from wide-ranging sources to ensure efficient resolution and prevent recurrence
• Leverage deep expertise of the industry and multiple areas to serve as a thought leader within Oracle and to mentor other leaders and experts; contribute to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions); continuously build expertise by anticipating future trends, technologies, and industry standards to develop best practices and strategic goals that position the line of business as an industry leader; develop and implement strategies for continuous learning and knowledge sharing, fostering an environment where learning is prioritized
• Lead and influence the design of innovative and high-impact processes and approaches to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness across the line of business; foster a culture of idea generation and seeking feedback on solutions across departments and functions for continued improvement
• Provide thought leadership regarding organizational talent strategy, collaborating with executive leadership and HR to anticipate talent needs based on industry forecast; impart strategic guidance to shape the talent development pipeline

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in system design and architecture for distributed systems
• Proficiency in English (reading, writing, and speaking)
• Experience in designing fault-tolerant systems
• Expertise in performance and scalability optimization
• Knowledge of service level objectives (SLOs) and key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Experience with automation tools and strategies (e.g., Infrastructure as Code)
• Ability to lead incident management and operational troubleshooting
• Experience in compliance and security measures for multi-tenant environments
• Strong collaboration and partnership skills across multiple lines of business
• Ability to drive continuous improvement and learning within the organization