Principal Data Systems Software Engineer Locations:

- BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, India
- HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, India

Job Identification: 349675

Job Category: Product and Research

Posting Date: 11/05/2026, 11:39 AM

Role: Individual Contributor

Job Type: Regular Employee

Security Clearance Required: No

Years of Experience: 6 to 10 years

Applicants: Less than 10 applicants

Visa / Work Permit Sponsorship: Not available for this position

Languages Required: English

About the Role Our team builds the tools and runs the tests that support Oracle Database patch releases, including RUs, PSUs, CPUs, MRPs, and CSPUs. The work spans multiple release lines and involves changes across a large, complex codebase.

In this hands-on role, you'll build and own test automation, investigate failures, and work with development and testing teams to resolve issues. You'll also use AI coding tools and explore ways to bring AI agents into day-to-day engineering workflows.

What Will You Do?

- Build and maintain test frameworks and tools for database patch validation.
- Automate test runs, result collection, failure detection, and issue tracking across release lines.
- Investigate failures by examining test results, source code, logs, stack traces, and dumps.
- Debug programs that are part of the Oracle Database server.
- Turn customer use cases into tests and improve existing test applications.
- Work with development, testing, and release teams to understand issues and keep patch validation moving.
- Use AI coding tools for tasks such as exploring code, writing or updating tests, refactoring, and documentation. Review and test generated code before using it.
- Build AI agent workflows for tasks such as summarizing failures, grouping similar issues, and connecting test results with code changes or known bugs.
- Build connectors that let AI agents work with approved test systems, diagnostic data, and issue tracking tools.
- Evaluate AI workflows and make their results traceable, with engineers reviewing findings before action is taken.
- Track whether automation is improving test coverage, repeatability, and the time it takes to investigate failures.

Why the Work Matters Each patch can include hundreds of fixes, and every fix needs to be checked for unintended effects. Several database releases are tested at the same time, while customers depend on patches arriving on schedule.

Better automation and faster, clearer failure analysis can catch regressions earlier and make validation more predictable.

Required Skills

- Proficiency in Python, Java, SQL, and PL/SQL.
- Strong foundations in data structures and algorithms (DSA) and object-oriented programming (OOP).
- Experience developing software, test tools, or automation.

Preferred Skills

- Perl or JavaScript.
- Familiarity with Oracle Database concepts such as server architecture, background processes, instances, shared and dedicated servers, connectivity, and configuration.
- Experience reading alert logs, stack dumps, or other database diagnostics.
- Experience building test harnesses, automation frameworks, or workflow tools.
- Experience with AI coding assistants or integrating AI into software development.
- Familiarity with LLMs, AI agents,



or connectors between agents and engineering tools.
- Experience testing AI workflows and making their results traceable and reviewable.
- Experience working across multiple operating systems and platforms.

What Will You Learn? You'll have opportunities to build knowledge of Oracle Database areas such as Consolidated Database, Grid Computing, Real Application Clusters (RAC), transaction management, query optimization, recovery, and data warehousing.

ResponsibilitiesKey Responsibilities Data Systems Software Development:

- Own a feature area's data model across Online Transaction Processing/Online Analytical Processing, JSON, spatial, or graph.
- Define performance budgets and enforce query patterns that meet latency targets at scale.
- Partner with product management to design experiments that drive adoption, conversion, and retention; analyze results to inform roadmap.
- Architect existing and complex new services.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

- Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals.
- Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle.
- Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements.
- Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
- Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
- Develops fixes for identified issues.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

- Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services.
- Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.
- Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure work aligns with software architecture.
- Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

- Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.
- Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
- Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad reaching maintenance issues.

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

- Collaborates with the team and ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.
- Implements complex secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

- Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching.
- Drives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability.

Core Responsibilities Planning & Execution:





- Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables.
- Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects.

Collaboration & Partnership:

- Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
- Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving:

- Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data.
- Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues.

Continuous Learning:

- Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in current areas.
- Coaches and mentors junior team members.

Continuous Improvement:

- Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase efficiency and effectiveness of processes.

Performance and Development:

- Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews.

Required Skills

- Atlassian Jira
- Data Analysis
- Generative AI
- Java SE 25
- Object Oriented Software Development
- Perl Programming
- Predictive Analytics
- Python

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