Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems, emphasizing scalability, resiliency, and operability. The role delivers features and load/performance tests; uses data-plane platforms and distributed-state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and reviews peer implementations for scalability compliance. It builds fault-tolerant paths using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover, applies recovery-oriented principles, and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts. The engineer detects and mitigates issues through tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks; and participates in incident response and root-cause analyses. The role 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. The position involves designing, implementing, testing, and optimizing large-scale distributed systems and data-plane services. It strengthens reliability and operational readiness through scale-oriented architecture, testing, observability, automation, incident response, and secure infrastructure practices. Oracle states that the U.S. hiring range is $79,200 to $209,500 per annum, with possible bonus and equity eligibility. Oracle US describes a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off and holidays; paid sick leave and parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal benefits; and voluntary insurance benefits.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 4 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 for safe maintenance, troubleshooting, patching, updates, and rollbacks.
- Apply security controls, including encryption, access controls, and vulnerability remediation, in multi-tenant environments.
- Review peers’ implementations for scalability compliance.
- Ensure change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.
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.
- Paid time off, including flexible vacation for eligible salaried employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
- 11 paid holidays.
- 72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
