Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
About The Position
The Senior Software Engineer will help build a new team and create platforms that enable OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently at scale. The role focuses on foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems, including large-scale cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, operational automation, and trustworthy systems. The engineer designs, implements, and optimizes scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems. They work with data-plane and distributed-state technologies, develop fault-tolerant mechanisms, and build performance and reliability testing. The role also includes monitoring and resolving production issues through telemetry, dashboards, incident response, and root-cause analysis; developing Infrastructure as Code and automation; implementing security controls; and meeting operational, change-management, and compliance standards.
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 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
- Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on eligibility and position
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
- The role may be eligible for bonus and equity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
