Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, Data Center Telemetry & Automation
About The Position
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds GPU platforms for demanding AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads. The Raw Metal Cloud team develops software managing infrastructure from hardware onboarding and inventory through provisioning, validation, rack certification, and customer handoff. The Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer leads the design and delivery of distributed services for data-center telemetry, device management, and hardware lifecycle automation. The role defines how services collect and interpret infrastructure signals, securely manage devices, and coordinate reliable remediation across a growing fleet. It is a hands-on technical leadership position, translating ambiguous requirements into practical architectures, leading initiatives across services and teams, and contributing directly to implementation and production operations. The work aims to improve infrastructure readiness, reduce operational effort, and make GPU capacity delivery more predictable.
Requirements
- Must be able and willing to work onsite in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production distributed systems.
- Strong hands-on development skills in Java, Python, or a comparable backend language.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating scalable, highly available services and APIs.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, distributed state, asynchronous processing, failure recovery, and data consistency.
- Experience designing data models and selecting storage approaches based on throughput, latency, retention, and reliability requirements.
- Practical knowledge of Linux, networking, secure service communication, and authentication.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation and production delivery.
- Strong technical judgment, cross-team communication, and experience mentoring engineers.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing telemetry or observability platforms for large infrastructure fleets.
- Familiarity with time-series systems, event-driven architectures, and high-volume device data processing.
- Experience with ILOM, Redfish, gNMI, MQTT, or comparable hardware management technologies.
- Experience designing PKI, mutual TLS, and automated certificate provisioning and rotation.
- Knowledge of data-center power, thermal, and cooling infrastructure or GPU hardware lifecycle management.
- Experience building safe automated remediation, workflow orchestration, and device management systems.
- Experience with OCI or another cloud platform and operational tools built with React and TypeScript.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and implementation for telemetry ingestion, processing, storage, and integration with monitoring platforms.
- Define service boundaries, APIs, data models, and integration patterns across heterogeneous infrastructure devices.
- Design secure workflows for device onboarding, configuration, certificate lifecycle management, health assessment, and automated repair.
- Establish approaches for distributed state management, retries, idempotency, backpressure, fault isolation, and recovery.
- Define service reliability and performance goals; build observability, validation, and deployment safeguards to meet them.
- Lead complex production investigations and drive lasting improvements to service resilience and operational efficiency.
- Partner with hardware, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to resolve dependencies and deliver capabilities across data-center deployments.
- Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and improve engineering standards while contributing production code.
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 or accrued paid vacation, depending on eligibility and position.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshing 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.
- May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
- Relocation assistance is available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
