Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, AI Infrastructure

Oracle

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On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
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$114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted
15 days ago
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TL;DR · Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, AI Infrastructure

JOB TITLE: Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer - AI Infrastructure As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, you will join the Compute AI Infrastructure Bare Metal Provisioning team to own the software design and development for major components of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will build high-performance, scalable micro-services and tooling to automate the full server lifecycle, including hardware bring-up, firmware management, and instance provisioning for AMD, Intel, Arm, and Nvidia platforms. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, Linux development, and systems triage to manage interactions between bare metal hardware and full-stack orchestration frameworks. You will utilize technologies including Java, C++, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and SQL. Your work solves the complex problem of provisioning, configuring, and securing a massive fleet of Compute and GPU infrastructure with minimal operational overhead and high reliability.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop software for major components of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Automate the full server lifecycle from platform creation to customer-ready provisioning.
  • Build high-performance micro-services to configure and secure server platforms across the GPU fleet.
  • Manage firmware and hardware interactions for components like BMCs, NICs, and GPUs.
  • Debug and troubleshoot low-level systems including Linux, Docker, and Java web services.
  • Design broad distributed system interactions to ensure high availability and scalability.
  • Partner with hardware and networking teams to launch and maintain new server platforms.

What we're looking for

  • Must live near Nashville, TN or be willing to relocate for onsite work.
  • 6-10+ years of experience delivering and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems, Linux development, and systems debugging.
  • Strong knowledge of Object Oriented programming such as C++ or Java and experience with scripting languages such as Python.
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Experience with tools such as Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
  • Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
  • Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
  • Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure (preferred).

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