Research Oracle before you apply
Check ratings, real-employee reviews, verified pay, and interview difficulty.
A central focus of this role is building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that bring the Database Tools service into AI-agent workflows, making its capabilities available to AI agents and helping shape how developers work with Oracle Database. You’ll also contribute to the Document Generator Pre-built Function and the Oracle Database, Oracle ORDS, and Oracle APEX stack on Oracle Cloud.
Responsibilities
What You’ll Do Every Day
- Build native cloud services in an Agile environment using the latest cloud technologies, such as Terraform
- Instrument services and automate solution deployment worldwide with a DevOps mindset
- Use Codex and other agentic development tools extensively in day-to-day engineering work, including code exploration, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation; review and validate their output
- Coordinate with project stakeholders such as Support and Operations to provide a high level of expertise and service availability
- Respond to production platform service escalations; lead incident recovery and root-cause analysis
- Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to the team with continuous improvement in mind
- Produce the documentation needed to make the platform easy to operate
- Contribute to the design, development, and operation of MCP servers and related integrations as the team’s work evolves
Preferred Skills
6+ years of professional experience in back-end engineering
- BS or MS degree in computer science or equivalent software development experience
- Experience working on commercial products that handle large volumes of data in highly available distributed systems
- Experience developing scripts to automate software deployments and installations
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and microservice architectures
- Familiarity with version control tools such as Git and Bitbucket
- Familiarity with monitoring tools, such as alarms and Grafana dashboards
- Strong programming skills with Java and SQL
- Curiosity and a willingness to learn and continually improve the solution
- Exposure to Agile development methodologies
- Experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), MCP server development, or integrating services with AI agents is a plus
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-building technologies is a plus
- Expertise in one or more public clouds—AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI—is a plus
- Experience with JavaScript and Node.js is a plus
- Familiarity with Codex or similar agentic development tools, and the ability to guide and validate their output