Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity

Oracle•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer for its Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization. The team builds software solutions to improve infrastructure capacity management, resource sourcing, and future-demand planning. Its work includes planning and forecasting services, sourcing workflows, process automation, data integration, and operational reporting, with a focus on improving decision quality and operational visibility while reducing manual effort across engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance. The engineer will design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and workflow automation supporting infrastructure planning and capacity management. The role owns technical designs and service implementations, contributes to architectural decisions, and collaborates across engineering teams to deliver scalable and reliable production systems. It covers new capabilities and enhancements to existing systems, with an emphasis on improving architecture, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency. The position leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems. It defines and enforces scalability requirements, optimizes code and data paths for high-throughput workloads, and uses data-plane platforms for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing. The engineer designs fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable systems; establishes telemetry, KPIs, dashboards, and alerts; and develops complex validation, replication, and synchronization approaches. The role also includes production troubleshooting, mentoring, operational support rotations, security and compliance work, and infrastructure automation for safe patching, updates, and rollbacks. The role is based onsite in Nashville, Tennessee, five days per week. Relocation assistance is available; the position is not remote.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 7 years of professional software development experience.
Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, C#, or a comparable programming language.
Experience designing, building, and deploying cloud-native services and APIs in cloud environments.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, system design, and relational and/or distributed databases.
Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical designs and independently deliver reliable, maintainable production services.
Experience with modern software development practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, source control, monitoring, observability, debugging, and production reliability.
Experience owning technical designs, contributing to architecture decisions, and coordinating implementation across engineering teams.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including troubleshooting complex technical challenges and driving solutions through implementation.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate with engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve software delivery, testing, debugging, and technical documentation.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and developing distributed systems, highly scalable backend services, or complex cloud-native applications.
Familiarity with data engineering, ETL processes, streaming technologies, data warehousing, forecasting, or operational analytics.
Experience with workflow orchestration platforms, business-process automation, or complex operational workflows.
Knowledge of infrastructure capacity management, demand planning, infrastructure sourcing, supply chain operations, or hardware lifecycle management.
Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or similar cloud infrastructure environments.
Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, microservices, and cloud-native application architectures.
Experience improving system scalability, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency in production environments.

Responsibilities

Lead development and begin architecting components of scalable distributed systems, including use of distributed state management tools.
Define scalability requirements for owned components and ensure designs and implementations meet them.
Optimize code and systems for large-scale data processing and high-throughput workloads; design systems for elastic scaling.
Use data-plane platforms for large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing, and design performance and load testing.
Design fault-tolerant systems capable of in-service updates using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
Design for service disruptions such as network partitions, and implement load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting to address network unreliability.
Design durable components and systems that adhere to service-level objectives and set availability and durability expectations for other department computing services.
Define KPIs and telemetry, and build dashboards, monitoring systems, and alerts to identify gaps and proactively track system health.
Design and implement functional and correctness requirements for new and existing systems; create complex test scenarios such as fault injection and brownouts.
Implement data replication and synchronization to maintain data integrity and availability.
Proactively diagnose, debug, and resolve production issues; mentor others in these processes and maintain expertise in owned systems.
Develop strategies to prevent interruptions and avoid customer maintenance windows when resolving issues.
Meet operational readiness expectations and participate in operational support rotations, providing guidance during incident response and root-cause investigations.
Implement security measures, including encryption and access controls, and execute remediation plans for security gaps.
Help ensure cloud infrastructure complies with industry standards and regulations and keep compliance documentation current.
Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools, including Infrastructure as Code, to manage cloud infrastructure.
Create and follow change-management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and begin designing components to automate these processes.
Own technical designs and service implementations, contribute to architecture decisions, and coordinate implementation across engineering teams.
Translate business requirements into technical designs and deliver reliable, maintainable production services.
Collaborate with engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver and improve infrastructure planning and capacity-management solutions.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
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.
Flexible Vacation for eligible salaried non-overtime-eligible employees; accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a 112-hour cap.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Financial planning and group legal benefits.
Voluntary benefits, including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
Relocation assistance.