Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Oracle Media Services is hiring a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer (IC4) to help lead Studio in the Cloud, a product line enabling studio-grade creative workloads on OCI. This individual contributor owns ambiguous features from design through production readiness, with emphasis on OCI Batch, Global Object Storage, customer-critical blockers, and operational maturity. The role leads end-to-end design and execution for critical platform features, drives Global Object Storage acceptance and production readiness, strengthens observability and incident-prevention practices, and coordinates delivery across engineering, product, operations, support, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams. It also introduces practical AI-first engineering workflows, mentors engineers, translates customer adoption blockers into technical plans, and communicates risks, decisions, and status to stakeholders. The position involves designing scalable, reliable distributed systems; defining scalability requirements; optimizing high-throughput workloads; establishing telemetry and reliability metrics; proactively troubleshooting production issues; supporting operational readiness and incident response; implementing security and compliance measures; and developing infrastructure automation and safe change-management practices. The role is focused on production-grade creative workflows in the cloud, where scale, reliability, cost, and customer trust are important.

Requirements

Senior-level experience designing, building, and operating distributed cloud services, workflow orchestration systems, media platforms, GPU infrastructure, or high-scale production platforms.
Evidence of leading ambiguous initiatives through architecture, execution ownership, dependency management, and production readiness as an individual contributor.
Strong system-design judgment across scalability, reliability, observability, operational safety, cost, and customer impact.
Hands-on experience improving service operations, including incident response, runbooks, reliability metrics, readiness reviews, or customer escalation processes.
Experience using or introducing AI-assisted engineering workflows, developer-productivity automation, reporting automation, or SDLC improvements in a quality-conscious environment.
Ability to influence without direct authority across engineering, product, operations, support, and infrastructure teams.
Clear written and verbal communication for architecture tradeoffs, executive-ready status, roadmap risks, and operational decisions.
Ability to design and implement scalable distributed systems, performance and load testing, fault-tolerant architectures, and reliability practices.
Ability to establish KPIs and telemetry, build monitoring dashboards and alerts, and design correctness and fault-injection tests.
Ability to diagnose production issues, support incident response and root-cause investigations, and mentor peers.
Ability to implement security controls, address security gaps, maintain compliance documentation, and develop infrastructure automation.

Nice To Haves

Background in media workflows, cloud rendering, creative production platforms, Batch systems, GPU scheduling, HPC, or adjacent infrastructure is strongly relevant.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end design and execution for critical Studio in the Cloud features across OCI Batch, Global Object Storage, and related platform dependencies.
Drive Global Object Storage acceptance and production-readiness workstreams by clarifying ownership, sequencing dependencies, and closing technical and operational gaps.
Strengthen operational posture through observability, runbooks, incident-prevention practices, readiness reviews, reliability metrics, and customer escalation discipline.
Partner across Oracle Media Services, OCI infrastructure, product, support, and customer-facing teams to remove blockers and align roadmap delivery with customer commitments.
Introduce practical AI-first engineering workflows that reduce reporting toil and improve delivery confidence without weakening review, security, or quality practices.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical direction, execution planning, and examples of senior-level ownership in ambiguous environments.
Translate customer adoption blockers into actionable technical plans with clear risks, milestones, tradeoffs, and operational handoffs.
Communicate technical status, decisions, risks, and options to senior engineering, product, and operational stakeholders.
Lead development and begin architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems.
Define scalability requirements for owned components and optimize code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads.
Design fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions; apply load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
Establish KPIs and telemetry, build dashboards and alerts, and design validation scenarios such as fault injection and brownouts.
Design and implement data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain correctness, durability, and availability.
Proactively diagnose, debug, and resolve production issues; mentor others in troubleshooting and incident response.
Meet operational readiness expectations, support incident response and root-cause investigations, and implement strategies to prevent customer-facing maintenance windows.
Implement security measures for multi-tenant environments, execute remediation plans, maintain compliance documentation, and develop infrastructure automation.
Create and adhere to change-management plans for patching, updates, and rollbacks, and design systems to support automation of these processes.
Coordinate project tasks and deliverables, adjust execution plans as resources or timelines change, and contribute to process improvements.
Participate in candidate interviews, assess candidates, and provide hiring recommendations.