About our team Real-World Performance

Real-World Performance is a team of highly talented engineers within Oracle’s database development organization, passionate about performance. Our team works on global projects focussed on the Oracle database and application performance both inside Oracle development and external Oracle customers. Our projects span from review, design over to forensic work on performance escalations and teaching application developers, architects and DBA to use the Oracle database to its fullest.

 

What do you work on:

- Analyze holistically customer workloads by looking at application logic, database schema, SQL

- Review, rewrite SQL and application code

- Use available instrumentation to quantify performance

- Invent, create efficient methods, tools to analyze usage, performance

- Review Oracle database features

- Propose changes

- Document and share your project results and findings

- Work with product development to implement product improvements

 

Who you are:

- You are passionate about performance and work independently

- You are solid in SQL

          Able read / write SQL

          Understand how SQL impacts the access to data

          Schema and data model

- You have hands-on experience with:

           Oracle database or similar

           Oracle database performance tools, AWR, ASH, SQL Monitor

           Debugger, reading, parsing trace files

           Operating systems, Virtual machines

- You have developed applications

- You have hands-on programming experience

- You are able to read, review any application code to understand the logic

- You have a Computer Science BS / MS education or similar background

 

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.