Senior Software Engineer, Database Platforms

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Software Engineer, Database Platforms

• Team focus: Oracle capabilities within a global Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform

• Location: Dublin

Description & Responsibilities

Bloomberg is modernizing its Database Engineering platform around self-service, resilience, compliance, security, and performance. As part of the Oracle Infrastructure team, you will build infrastructure platform services, APIs, automation, and operational tooling that help engineers deploy and operate Oracle-backed systems safely at scale.

• Build backend services, APIs, and automation for the Oracle DBaaS platform

• Create self-service workflows for configuration, patching, deployment, and lifecycle management

• Improve Oracle observability, telemetry, alerting, high availability, and disaster recovery tooling

• Debug production issues across application, database, and infrastructure layers

• Partner with engineering teams to improve database design, performance, reliability, and production readiness

• Help shape the Dublin presence for the global Database Engineering platform team

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience using Java, Python, or similar languages

• Experience building services, automation, or operational tooling for relational database-backed systems

• Strong understanding of relational database concepts

• Experience automating infrastructure or production workflows

• Strong communication skills and a relevant technical degree or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a global DBaaS platform supporting 100K+ databases

• Focus on reducing operational toil and improving reliability through automation and self-service

• Work across software, database, and infrastructure layers (not a traditional DBA role)