Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
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. Designs, implements, and optimizes scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems. Leverages data-plane and distributed state technologies, builds fault-tolerant mechanisms, and develops performance and reliability testing. Proactively monitors and resolves production issues through telemetry, dashboards, incident response, and RCAs. Develops IaC and automation, implements security controls, and ensures operational, change-management, and compliance standards are met.
Requirements
- Designs, implements, and optimizes scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems.
- Leverages data-plane and distributed state technologies, builds fault-tolerant mechanisms, and develops performance and reliability testing.
- Proactively monitors and resolves production issues through telemetry, dashboards, incident response, and RCAs.
- Develops IaC and automation, implements security controls, and ensures operational, change-management, and compliance standards are met.
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize scalable distributed systems using distributed state-management and data-plane technologies.
- Implement scalability requirements and performance/load testing for large-scale workloads.
- Build fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
- Implement telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and fault testing to ensure reliability, correctness, and availability.
- Apply replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues and automate troubleshooting and maintenance.
- Participate in incident response, operational support, and root cause analysis.
- Support in-service updates with minimal customer impact.
- Implement encryption, access controls, and security remediation.
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards and documentation requirements.
- Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and operational automation.
- Follow change-management processes for patching, updates, and rollbacks.
- Track timelines, prioritize work, and adjust plans to meet project requirements.
- Collaborate across teams and understand business, stakeholder, and customer needs.
- Seek and incorporate diverse perspectives.
- Independently troubleshoot issues, escalate complex problems, and share best practices.
- Build new skills, stay current with industry trends, and promote knowledge sharing.
- Identify and recommend improvements to processes, workflows, and team practices.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
- 11 paid holidays
- 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
