Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer - AI Infrastructure

Oracle•Nashville, TN

23h•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 the software design and development of major OCI components. The team automates the full server lifecycle, from creating new platform shapes and bringing up hardware to provisioning customer-ready instances and managing firmware. Its services connect bare-metal hardware with full-stack orchestration frameworks and include interfaces to BMCs, NICs, SmartNICs, ILOMs, GPUs, and custom firmware stacks. The team builds scalable, high-performance microservices and tools to provision, configure, secure, and validate server platforms across OCI’s Compute and GPU fleet. You will work on distributed infrastructure and low-level systems, designing, developing, operating, and debugging across the stack. You will collaborate with teams in Compute, Networking, Security, Data Center Engineering, and Hardware Development to launch, scale, and maintain server platforms reliably and with minimal operational overhead. The work includes exposure to cutting-edge GPU hardware and new Compute systems. Oracle describes the workplace as dynamic and flexible, with autonomy and support, and emphasizes inclusion, respect, learning, and career growth. This position requires living near Nashville, Tennessee, or relocating there, for regular onsite work.

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, for regular office attendance, 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 across the stack, including Linux, Docker, Java web services, and Terraform.
Improve existing systems, independently identify problems, and take action to deliver results.
Build and support infrastructure for server lifecycle automation, including platform creation, hardware bring-up, instance provisioning, and firmware management.
Collaborate with Compute, Networking, Security, Data Center Engineering, and Hardware Development teams to launch, scale, and maintain server platforms reliably.