Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle•Nashville, TN

25d•$79,200 - $209,500

About The Position

This is an opportunity to solve foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems with broad impact across OCI. We are hiring Senior Software engineers who are excited by large-scale cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, operational automation, and building trustworthy systems. You will help shape a new team and create the platforms that enable OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently at unprecedented scale.

Requirements

Foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems
Large-scale cloud infrastructure
Deployment orchestration
Operational automation
Building trustworthy systems
Scalability, resiliency, and operability
Load/performance tests
Data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing
Fault-tolerant paths (redundancy, replication, automatic failover)
Recovery‑oriented principles
Retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts
Tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry
Runbooks
Incident response and RCAs
Standard replication and synchronization
Automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance
Advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation)
Change, compliance, and documentation standards

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.