Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

6d•$146,300 - $306,400

About The Position

As a Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer on Oracle's Strategic Customer Engineering team, you will drive complex technical initiatives across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support strategic customers. You will collaborate with service teams and cross-functional organizations to align technical requirements, resolve infrastructure challenges, and lead high-impact engineering solutions that improve customer experience, reliability, and scalability. The role serves as a technical subject matter expert in cloud technologies, distributed systems, and architectural trade-offs. It combines hands-on engineering with leadership of large-scale technical initiatives from design through implementation, including influence across organizational boundaries.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines.
Deep expertise designing and operating highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems in large-scale production environments.
Strong programming experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar languages, with hands-on scripting and automation capabilities.
Experience with infrastructure automation, containerization, and orchestration technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Advanced Linux expertise, including system internals, administration, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and automation across Oracle Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar distributions.
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture, including compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and multi-tenant environments.
Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams.
Experience with scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, observability, and performance optimization in distributed cloud environments.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, including diagnosing complex infrastructure issues, conducting root cause analysis, and improving operational reliability.
Ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively with senior engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting complex technical information clearly to technical and executive audiences.
Strong technical documentation skills, including architecture designs, technical specifications, operational procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for strategic customer environments.
Serve as a technical subject matter expert and influence engineering strategy, architectural decisions, and technical standards across OCI service teams.
Drive end-to-end execution of complex cross-organizational engineering initiatives, aligning technical requirements, dependencies, and deliverables.
Identify and resolve system scalability, performance, and reliability bottlenecks; optimize infrastructure for high-throughput workloads and elastic scaling.
Evaluate architectural trade-offs involving availability, consistency, durability, security, and performance to meet service level objectives.
Partner with Compute, Networking, Storage, Identity, and other OCI service teams to address cross-service dependencies and technical challenges.
Design and implement infrastructure automation, tooling, and change management solutions that improve scalability, operational efficiency, and resilience.
Establish observability strategies, including telemetry, KPIs, dashboards, and alerting to proactively monitor system health and performance.
Lead technical investigations, incident response, and root cause analysis, and drive solutions that prevent recurring issues and minimize customer disruption.
Drive engineering best practices for system correctness, data integrity, security, compliance, and operational readiness across distributed environments.
Advise engineering leadership on technical risks and architectural decisions; mentor engineers and promote continuous improvement across teams.