Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer - AI Infrastructure

Oracle•Nashville, TN

5d•$114,600 - $234,600•Onsite

About The Position

As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Compute AI Infrastructure Bare Metal Provisioning team, you will own software design and development for major OCI components. The team automates the full server lifecycle, from creating new platform shapes and bringing up hardware to customer-ready instance provisioning and firmware management. Its services connect bare-metal hardware with full-stack orchestration frameworks and build high-performance, scalable microservices and tools to provision, configure, secure, and validate server platforms across OCI’s Compute and GPU infrastructure fleet. You will work with hardware and firmware including BMCs, NICs, SmartNICs, ILOMs, GPUs, and custom firmware stacks. You will partner with teams in Compute, Networking, Security, Data Center Engineering, and Hardware Development to launch, scale, and maintain server platforms with high reliability and minimal operational overhead. The role involves designing, developing, operating, and debugging distributed systems and low-level systems such as Linux, Docker, Java web services, and Terraform. The position is based near Nashville, Tennessee, with regular office attendance required; candidates may relocate to the area. Oracle describes the workplace as dynamic and flexible, with autonomy and support to do your best work. The company emphasizes equity, inclusion, respect, collaboration, learning, and career growth.

Requirements

6–10+ years of experience delivering and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems, Linux development, and systems debugging.
Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, such as C++ or Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Working familiarity with networking protocols including TCP/IP and HTTP, and standard network architectures.
Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills.
Must live near Nashville, Tennessee and regularly go into the office, or be willing to relocate to the area for onsite work.

Nice To Haves

Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Own software design and development for major components of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Design, develop, operate, and debug distributed systems and low-level systems, including Linux, Docker, Java web services, and Terraform.
Develop and support infrastructure that automates server platform creation, hardware bring-up, provisioning, configuration, security, validation, and firmware management.
Improve existing systems, independently identify problems, and take action to deliver results.
Collaborate with teams across Compute, Networking, Security, Data Center Engineering, and Hardware Development to launch, scale, and maintain server platforms reliably.