Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle • Nashville, TN

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About The Position

Designs, implements, and optimizes components of distributed systems, with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability. The role delivers features and load and performance tests, uses data-plane platforms and distributed-state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing, and reviews peers’ implementations for scalability compliance.

The engineer builds fault-tolerant paths through redundancy, replication, and automatic failover; applies recovery-oriented principles; and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts. The role proactively detects and mitigates issues through tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks; and participates in incident response and root-cause analyses. It also implements replication and synchronization, develops automation and Infrastructure as Code for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies security controls while meeting change, compliance, and documentation standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Four or more years of professional software-development experience; advanced degree holders may have fewer years of experience.
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
• Experience building or operating scalable, highly available distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with system-level testing and automation, including performance, load, reliability, or fault-injection testing.
• Understanding of distributed-systems concepts, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software-development practices.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, state management, replication, or large-scale data processing.
• Experience with observability, incident management, Infrastructure as Code, and production service operations.
• Familiarity with compliance requirements and security controls for cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and optimize components of large-scale distributed systems and data-plane services.
• Build for horizontal and vertical scale using distributed state, replication, synchronization, and high-volume data-processing patterns.
• Strengthen service reliability through redundancy, automatic failover, recovery-oriented design, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Develop and execute performance, load, and fault-injection tests to validate scalability, correctness, availability, and operational readiness.
• Create dashboards, alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and automation to proactively detect issues and accelerate recovery.
• Diagnose production issues, participate in on-call rotations and incident response, and contribute to root-cause analyses and durable corrective actions.
• Develop infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for safe maintenance, troubleshooting, patching, updates, and rollbacks.
• Apply security controls, including encryption, access controls, and vulnerability remediation, in multi-tenant environments.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• 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.
• Paid time off, including flexible or accrued vacation depending on eligibility.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal benefits.
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
• May be eligible for bonus and equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior