Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for enterprises. We combine the pace and ownership of a start-up with the scale, reliability, and customer focus required to run one of the world’s leading enterprise cloud platforms.

Requirements

6-8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and operating resilient production services.
4+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade distributed systems, cloud services, and/or control-plane platforms.
Strong proficiency in Java, including production service development, concurrent programming, and performance troubleshooting.
Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to improve design, code generation, testing, troubleshooting, and process automation while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
Strong API design skills, including RESTful service design and OpenAPI/Swagger or comparable API contracts.
Experience designing reliable stateful workflows, including asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, concurrency control, and failure recovery.
Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and highly available distributed systems.
Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
8 years of experience in software development OR Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development OR Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of distributed systems, including designing or managing scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.
Demonstrated experience creating and refining prototypes for system validation and stakeholder feedback.
Demonstrated understanding of computer science principles and ability to implement them in code.
Demonstrated proficiency in all phases of software engineering and development.
Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of web development, including designing, developing, or maintaining modern web applications using current frameworks.
Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of innovation, including generating or supporting new ideas, technologies, or processes for organizational growth.
Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of cross-functional collaboration, including working with stakeholders across teams or geographies to achieve common objectives.
Demonstrated ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT and physical information assets.
Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of operating systems, including installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting various operating environments.
Demonstrated ability to develop, test, and maintain secure APIs for application integration.
Demonstrated ability to build and manage robust API integrations for seamless interoperability between systems.
Demonstrated skill in designing, analyzing, and optimizing algorithms for efficiency and scalability.
Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of source control, including managing and documenting code versions and release branches.
2 years of professional experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).
3 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.
2 year of experience working with delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.

Nice To Haves

DNS expertise, including authoritative DNS, zone and record management, DNS delegation, TTLs, DNSSEC, and DNS change propagation.
Experience with cloud control planes, resource lifecycle management, or multi-tenant platform APIs.
Knowledge of internet protocols and security standards, including DNS, TLS, HTTP, and REST.
Experience with relational or distributed data stores and schema evolution for highly available services.
Familiarity with modern CI/CD platforms such as OCI DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD, and engineering productivity tools including Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.
Experience operating mission-critical services in a 24/7 environment.
8 years of experience in software development OR Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development OR Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics.
2 year of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).

Responsibilities

Design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, views, policies, and routing configuration.
Build reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, and lifecycle management across distributed DNS infrastructure.
Develop production services and libraries primarily in Java, with supporting automation in Python where needed, and a strong focus on API design and correctness.
Use AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate implementation, testing, incident investigation, and operational automation, with appropriate human review, security, and quality controls.
Improve safety and operational resilience through idempotent workflows, optimistic concurrency, audit-ability, rollback paths, canary releases, and feature flags.
Own observability and operational readiness: metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, run-books, capacity planning, and thoughtful on-call participation.
Partner with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams to deliver secure, end-to-end platform improvements.
Contribute technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and mentoring of other engineers.