Advanced Degree Software Engineer

Job Description
New College Grad Role intended for students graduating with their Master's and/or Doctorate's degree by August 2026, or have graduated within 12 months of cohort start date in June/July 2026.
Target Start Date: Mid-June or mid-July 2026
Work Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Redwood Shores, CA) & Nashua, NH
The Program:

Our future success depends on hiring world-class, early in career talent who are looking to power next-generation services and solutions. We are hiring students with a diverse set of skills and experiences to work in and across teams. Our program is intended to enhance your overall learning experience, help build your network, and accelerate your opportunity to make an impact.

The Team:

The Oracle Database Technologies organizations creates data management technologies that power the modern economy. This includes the Oracle Database, the most widely used mission-critical database in all major industries around the world. We use this foundation to develop Database Services in Public and Private Clouds, and the Oracle Autonomous Database, the world's first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing mission-critical cloud database service. The organization also engineers hardware systems specialized for database that are used by over 75% of the largest businesses in the world. In this team, the code that you write will power highly critical systems used by billions of people including travel reservations, telecommunications, hospitals, payroll, insurance, banking, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, e-commerce, utilities, and government services. The goal of our products is to increase the possibilities and productivity of businesses and people worldwide. Over 30% of the largest businesses in the world are already using our database cloud technologies.

The Company:

Oracle is the world's leading provider of business software. With a presence in over 175 countries, we are one of the biggest technology companies on the planet. We're using innovative emerging technologies to tackle real-world problems today. From advancing energy efficiency to reimagining online commerce, the work we do is not only transforming the world of business it's helping advance governments, power nonprofits, and giving billions of people the tools they need to outpace change. For more information about Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), visit us at .

What You'll Bring (Objective Minimum Qualifications):

To be considered for a Software Engineer position in the Database Technologies organizations, you must possess the Objective Minimum Qualifications (OMQs) below.

Please ensure that your application clearly indicates that you meet these OMQs, by listing relevant academic/professional/personal projects on your resume.

• Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. For clarity purposes, this means that Oracle is not in a position now, or in the future, to offer US immigration sponsorship. This includes, but is not limited to, support of H-1B, TN, O-1, green card or F-1 e.g. EAD, OPT, CPT, I-20, F-1 visa stamp, etc.
• Completed a Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent science/engineering field between by June 2026.
• Are strongly proficient (i.e., able to complete coding projects with no assistance) in the following programming languages: C, C++ and Java
• Have the ability to implement sophisticated algorithms and data structures in very complex systems with the highest quality.

• Have completed coursework, projects, internships, and or research three or more of the following Systems Programming related areas:

• Computer Architecture / Software Architecture

• Distributed Systems
• Database Systems / Database Internals (Storage Engine)
• Multithreaded/Multicore programming/Concurrent programming
• Parallel Programming

• Operating Systems Concepts

• Have completed at least one internship, research assistantship, teaching assistantship, or equivalent practical experience working with the relevant technical areas noted above.

• Reside in the United States and/or attend a university in the US.
• Able to obtain work authorization in the US in 2026

About You (Preferred Qualifications):

• Minimum 3.0 GPA

Career Level - IC2

Responsibilities
The Database Engineering Team is responsible for full stack development of a family of databases including Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Times-Ten In-Memory Database, and the industry-leading Oracle Database itself. This is a systems-focused group that works on areas such as distributed databases, substantial scalability, high availability, security, analytics, data warehousing, automatic parallelization, networking, replication, distributed caching, transaction engines, data engines, SQL execution, query optimization, and language design. The team develops in-database machine-learning and AI algorithms both to help our customers improve their business, and to make our own products autonomous. In addition, this group is also responsible for working on Oracle Engineered Systems which provide utmost performance and availability using technologies such as Persistent Memory and RDMA.

Qualifications
Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $68,500 - $158,200 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to