Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

31d•$146,300 - $306,400

About The Position

Oracle is hiring a Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to mentor teams and lead the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. The role identifies and resolves performance and scalability bottlenecks for hyperscale workloads, defines scalability requirements with stakeholders, and designs elastic, high-impact systems while advancing innovation in data plane platforms. The engineer designs fault-tolerant systems that support in-service upgrades, optimizes resilience mechanisms such as load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting, and sets SLO-aligned availability and durability standards across dependent services. The role establishes KPIs and advanced telemetry, applies formal verification to complex features, and develops robust replication and synchronization strategies. The position also advises on complex production issues, establishes operational readiness and standard operating procedure standards, and leads incident response and root-cause investigations. It architects advanced security controls, guides vulnerability remediation and compliance, and develops enterprise-level automation and change strategies for safe, automated patching, updates, and rollbacks. In addition to technical leadership, the role directs planning and execution for critical projects, influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders, leads advanced problem-solving, promotes continuous learning and improvement, and contributes expertise to talent development and hiring decisions.

Responsibilities

Mentor teams in the architecture and design of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems, including horizontal and vertical scalability, performance, and distributed state management.
Identify performance and scalability bottlenecks and recommend code or system optimizations for large-scale data processing and high-throughput hyperscale workloads.
Collaborate with stakeholders to define scalability requirements that meet customer expectations.
Design elastic, high-impact systems that scale up and down, and drive innovation in data plane platforms.
Evaluate systems against nonfunctional scalability requirements and anticipate business needs.
Design and oversee fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates through redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
Design systems to handle service disruptions such as network partitions, considering consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
Optimize resilience mechanisms including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
Set standards for availability and durability of dependent computing services in alignment with service level objectives.
Define KPIs and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, and cyclical dependencies in interdependent systems.
Drive the development and customization of dashboards, telemetry, and alerting mechanisms to monitor system health and reliability.
Apply industry correctness-verification techniques and formally verify complex features, including using tools such as TLA+.
Develop data replication and synchronization strategies that support data integrity and availability.
Advise on diagnosing, debugging, and resolving complex issues in active systems.
Develop strategies to prevent interruptions and avoid customer- or user-facing maintenance windows when resolving issues.
Maintain expertise in system dependencies, dependents, and owned systems to support troubleshooting and performance.
Set departmental operational readiness and standard operating procedure standards, and hold third-party partners accountable to them.
Oversee operational support rotations, guide incident response, and lead root-cause investigations.
Architect security measures for data and applications in multi-tenant environments and lead initiatives to improve protection.
Guide remediation plans for identified security vulnerabilities.
Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with industry standards and regulations, and guide compliance documentation across projects.
Develop enterprise-level automation tools and strategies, including Infrastructure as Code, and oversee implementation.
Align change-management plans and organizational initiatives for patching, updating, and rolling back applications; design systems to automate these processes.
Direct timelines, deliverables, and applicable budgets for critical, high-impact projects, adjusting plans for changing business priorities.
Influence cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders, build partnerships, and incorporate diverse perspectives.
Lead advanced problem-solving, act as an escalation point, guide data-driven approaches to ambiguous issues, and implement solutions that prevent recurrence.
Provide thought leadership, monitor emerging trends and standards, and promote continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and professional development.
Develop and implement process improvements, evaluate their effectiveness, and design metrics to measure success.
Advise on talent needs and strategy; contribute expertise to candidate interviews, assessments, and hiring decisions.