Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) Object Storage Metadata Service (MDS) team to design, develop, and operate distributed metadata infrastructure supporting OCI Object Storage at cloud scale. The role addresses metadata consistency, scalability, performance, fault tolerance, and high availability, with a focus on hands-on systems engineering, end-to-end ownership, and AI-assisted engineering practices. The engineer will build and enhance foundational metadata infrastructure and improve the scalability, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency of distributed storage services. The role includes production operations and on-call rotations, automation across the software development lifecycle, and active use of AI tools for engineering work. It also calls for technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with engineers, architects, and partner teams. The stated U.S. hiring range is $79,200 to $209,500 per annum. The role may be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle’s U.S. benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; vacation, paid holidays, and sick leave; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal benefits; and voluntary insurance benefits.

Requirements

3–5+ years of software development experience, including building and operating production systems or large-scale distributed services.
Proficiency in one or more of C++, Java, Go, or Rust, with solid foundations in data structures, algorithms, software design, and performance optimization.
Deep expertise in distributed systems design, including scalability, resiliency, concurrency, fault tolerance, service communication, and API design.
Experience with cloud-native technologies, including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated testing frameworks.
Experience building observability solutions using metrics, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting systems.
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and a proactive approach to adopting AI-first engineering practices.
Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or operating distributed storage systems, object storage, metadata services, or distributed databases.
Knowledge of distributed metadata management, partitioning, replication, consistency models, and recovery mechanisms.
Experience optimizing cloud-scale services for latency, throughput, scalability, and availability.
Experience operating globally distributed services across multiple regions and availability domains.
Familiarity with OCI or other cloud infrastructure platforms, containers, and deployment automation.
Experience developing AI-powered automation for software engineering, testing, debugging, or production operations.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance distributed metadata services, focusing on scalability, consistency, resiliency, and low latency.
Build resilient infrastructure using replication, redundancy, failure recovery, and automated failover mechanisms.
Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, testing frameworks, deployment automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Support production services through monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call rotations.
Improve reliability, scalability, and operational readiness through capacity planning, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
Use AI tools for coding, debugging, testing, code reviews, incident analysis, and workflow automation to improve engineering velocity and quality.
Own features end-to-end; participate in design and code reviews; maintain technical documentation and runbooks; and collaborate with engineers and architects to deliver reliable cloud infrastructure.
Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy across organizations, and raise engineering standards through design reviews and technical leadership.
Build and enhance foundational metadata infrastructure supporting OCI Object Storage.
Improve the scalability, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency of distributed storage services.
Deliver critical infrastructure capabilities while maintaining high standards for software quality and production readiness.
Advance engineering productivity through AI-assisted development, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

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
Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position
11 paid holidays
72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshed 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 and equity