Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer- Nashville,TN

Oracle•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Core Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate the distributed systems that power reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services. This role combines hands-on engineering, systems thinking, operational leadership, and mentorship. This position is based out of Nashville,TN. Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

Requirements

Hands-on engineering
Systems thinking
Operational leadership
Mentorship

Responsibilities

Leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems for the Network Automation Team.
Defines and enforces scalability requirements for owned components; optimizes code and data paths for high‑throughput, hyper‑scale workloads; and leverages data plane platforms for large‑scale retrieval, storage, and processing.
Designs fault‑tolerant, in‑service‑upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions, applying load‑shedding, throttling, and rate‑limiting to handle network unreliability while meeting SLOs.
Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; and designs complex validation (fault injection, brownouts), replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability.
Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness.
Implements robust security controls, executes remediation, maintains compliance documentation, and develops IaC and automation that enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks within change‑management plans.