Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle • Nashville, TN

5d • $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) for 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, applying expertise in cloud technologies, distributed systems, and architectural trade-offs to influence decisions and deliver solutions across organizational boundaries. The ideal candidate brings hands-on engineering expertise, strong communication skills, and a record of leading large-scale technical initiatives from design through implementation.

Oracle’s U.S. hiring range for the stated locations is $146,300 to $306,400 per year. The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle’s U.S. benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; short- and long-term disability; life insurance and AD&D; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off and holidays; paid sick leave; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal services; and voluntary insurance benefits. U.S.-based employees must complete identity verification involving the collection and processing of biometric information, subject to possible accommodations following an individualized assessment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 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, performing 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 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 complex, cross-organizational engineering initiatives from end to end, aligning technical requirements, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Identify and resolve scalability, performance, and reliability bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure for high-throughput workloads and elastic scaling.
• Evaluate trade-offs involving availability, consistency, durability, security, and performance to meet service level objectives (SLOs).
• 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 monitor system health and performance proactively.
• Lead technical investigations, incident response, and root cause analysis, and implement solutions to 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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off, including flexible vacation for eligible salaried employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees
• 11 paid holidays
• 72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a maximum of 112 hours
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal services
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
• May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal