Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer (OCI Object Storage)

Oracle•Nashville, TN

43d•$79,200 - $209,500•Onsite

About The Position

Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with industry leading compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. The Object Storage Service team is looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, large scale storage, and highly available services. As a senior engineer, you will own the software design and development for major components and features of the Object Storage Service. You should be both a rock-solid coder and with familiarity of distributed systems. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Requirements

Expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, large scale storage, and highly available services.
Rock-solid coder with familiarity of distributed systems.
Value simplicity and scale.
Work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment.
Excited to learn.

Responsibilities

Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.
Delivers features and load/performance tests; leverages data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and reviews peers’ implementations for scalability compliance.
Builds fault-tolerant paths (redundancy, replication, automatic failover), applies recovery‑oriented principles, and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
Proactively detects and mitigates issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks and participates in incident response and RCAs.
Implements standard replication and synchronization, develops automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation) while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.