Senior Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

9d•$126,200 - $264,100

About The Position

Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software for Oracle’s Access Governance platform, including backend services, APIs, databases, data processing workflows, integrations, and cloud applications. Services are primarily developed in Java. Build scalable software to process large volumes of identity, access, and governance data; improve performance and database access; strengthen reliability; and securely handle customer data. Develop product features, enhance existing behavior, and resolve complex issues across services, APIs, and data flows. Use customer feedback, telemetry, logs, and metrics to improve product quality and customer experience. As a technical leader, help build and maintain enterprise-scale backend capabilities, improve service reliability and observability, implement secure design practices, work with customers and cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to hiring and engineering standards.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java backend services for the Access Governance platform.
Build and support APIs, data processing workflows, service orchestration, storage and retrieval, authorization, and system integrations.
Improve application performance, optimize database access patterns, and design efficient data pipelines.
Build reliable, high-performance software that supports enterprise-scale workloads and scales with customer usage.
Develop fault-tolerant services supporting high availability, safe upgrades, rollbacks, failover, and zero-downtime maintenance.
Contribute to rate limiting, throttling, traffic management, and graceful handling of service disruptions.
Work with customers and customer-facing teams to understand usage, pain points, and product expectations.
Analyze complex issues, identify root causes and long-term solutions, and incorporate learnings into the product.
Build and improve monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and alerts to assess system health, customer experience, and product behavior.
Implement secure design practices, including encryption, access controls, authorization, tenant isolation, and protection of sensitive identity and access data.
Collaborate with security and compliance teams to meet enterprise standards.
Mentor junior engineers, lead design and code reviews, share best practices, and improve engineering standards.
Participate in candidate evaluations and help build the software engineering team.