Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

44d•$79,200 - $209,500

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Raw Metal Cloud team builds software connecting physical hardware with systems that onboard, track, validate, and deliver infrastructure at scale. The Senior Software Engineer will join the Inventory and Hardware Ingestion team to build backend services, APIs, and automated workflows tracking hardware identity, location, configuration, and lifecycle state from equipment arrival through installation and ongoing operations. These systems support the speed and reliability of bringing GPU capacity online. This hands-on role involves solving distributed systems and data consistency problems, integrating services across the infrastructure lifecycle, and making complex operational workflows reliable and maintainable. The engineer owns components from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production operation. The team values ownership, sound technical judgment, simple designs, collaboration, and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend services, distributed systems, or cloud platforms.
Strong programming skills in Java or another backend language such as Go, Python, or C++.
Experience designing APIs, relational data models, and database-backed services.
Understanding of distributed systems concepts, including concurrency, consistency, fault tolerance, and recovery.
Experience delivering software through implementation, automated testing, deployment, and production support.
Ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs, troubleshoot complex problems, and deliver maintainable solutions.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to make progress in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience with hardware inventory, asset lifecycle management, bare-metal provisioning, or infrastructure automation.
Experience building ingestion pipelines, event-driven services, or durable workflows that coordinate multiple systems.
Experience reconciling conflicting data and maintaining accurate state across distributed services.
Familiarity with Linux, networking fundamentals, server hardware, or GPU infrastructure.
Experience with database performance tuning, schema migrations, and backward-compatible APIs.
Substantial hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor for implementation, testing, refactoring, and code review.
Experience validating AI-generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and operate backend services and APIs for hardware inventory and onboarding.
Develop data models for hardware identity, physical location, component relationships, and lifecycle state.
Build ingestion workflows that validate incoming hardware data, reconcile discrepancies, and coordinate with partner systems.
Implement reliable asynchronous processing, including retries, idempotency, concurrency control, and recovery from partial failures.
Maintain consistent inventory information across services and integrations as hardware fleets and deployment sites grow.
Work with hardware, networking, data center operations, and software teams to translate real-world workflows into robust software.
Write automated tests, participate in design and code reviews, and improve service performance, observability, and reliability.
Investigate production issues and replace recurring manual fixes with durable engineering improvements.
Use AI-assisted coding tools responsibly, reviewing and validating generated code before it reaches production.

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 Vacation for eligible salaried employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a maximum of 112 hours.
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.
Volunteer programs.