Lead Software Engineer - Exadata (In Office Position Redwood City, CA)

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer and CMTS - Exadata

Location:  In-office position in Redwood City, CA

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.

This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, storage, and networking. Exadata uses RDMA over Converged Ethernet as part of its internal fabric to provide low-latency communication, message prioritization, intelligent flow control, and Ethernet-based RDMA performance and reliability. That makes this role especially relevant for engineers with strong systems depth across networking stacks, low-latency communication, and large-scale clustered infrastructure. As Exadata continues to evolve, high performance networking plays a critical role in enabling low-latency, high-throughput communication across database and storage infrastructure.

Description of the Role:

• Design and implement high performance networking features for Oracle Exadata systems, with a focus on low-latency, high-throughput data paths

• Develop and optimize software for distributed communication across database and storage nodes using technologies such as RDMA/RoCE and related high speed interconnects.

• Work across networking, storage, and compute boundaries to improve end-to-end system performance

• Develop parallel algorithms and distributed systems software that runs on a large-scale database and storage cluster

• Analyze, debug, and resolve complex performance bottlenecks and systems issues across the software and hardware stack

• Contribute to multiple projects in a fast-paced, collaborative, and rapidly evolving engineering environment

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Degree level (BS/MS/PhD): Bachelors/Masters/PhD
• Major(s): Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related
• 10 + years of experience 
• Programming languages: Strong expertise in Rust, proficiency in C/C++
• Strong background in network architecture and systems software development
• Familiarity with cloud networking architectures, Ethernet and switching technologies
• Tools, software, etc.: Development experience on Linux

• Background in Distributed Systems, Algorithms Design, Parallel Programming, Databases

What we’re looking for

• Expertise in systems programming, with Rust strongly preferred;C/C++ experience is also welcome.

• Strong fundamentals across CPU architecture, networking, and storage systems.

• Strong understanding of networking, cloud networking, and switch behavior in high-performance distributed environments.

• Engineers who can reason across the stack, from software architecture and protocol behavior to network performance and failure handling.

• Critical thinkers who do not wait to be told what to do next and who proactively identify issues, opportunities, and technical risks.

• Engineers who take ownership and drive problems through to resolution.

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills for complex systems problems in distributed and performance-sensitive environments.

• Enthusiasm for or strong experience building large-scale distributed systems and fault-tolerant infrastructure.

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: $114,600 to $234,600 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 - IC4