Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, AI Infrastructure

Oracle

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Location
Nashville, TN
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$114,600–$234,600 / yr
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15 days ago
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The Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer - AI Infrastructure joins the team to design, implement, and optimize components within large-scale distributed systems. This role focuses on building for horizontal and vertical scale, utilizing distributed state, replication, and high-volume data-processing patterns. Key responsibilities include strengthening service reliability through redundancy, automatic failover, and circuit breakers, while developing infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code for maintenance and troubleshooting. The engineer will perform performance, load, and fault-injection testing to ensure operational readiness. Required technical skills include proficiency in Java, C++, C#, or Go, along with experience in Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, SQL, Bash Scripting, and Terraform. The work involves solving complex problems in data-plane platforms, distributed storage, and multi-tenant environments while applying advanced security controls like encryption and access remediation.

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Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code Java Python Go C++ C# Kubernetes Docker Terraform AWS Oracle Cloud Azure Google Cloud Linux Bash Scripting SQL Microservices Observability

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and optimize components of large-scale distributed systems and data-plane services.
  • Build systems for horizontal and vertical scale using distributed state, replication, and high-volume data-processing patterns.
  • Strengthen service reliability through redundancy, automatic failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
  • Execute performance, load, and fault-injection tests to validate scalability and operational readiness.
  • Create dashboards, alarms, telemetry, and runbooks to proactively detect issues and accelerate recovery.
  • Diagnose production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to root-cause analyses.
  • Develop infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for maintenance, patching, and rollbacks.
  • Apply security controls including encryption, access management, and vulnerability remediation in multi-tenant environments.

What we're looking for

  • Must live near Nashville, TN or be willing to relocate to the area for onsite work.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of professional software-development experience; advanced degree holders may have fewer years of experience.
  • Proficiency in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
  • Experience building or operating scalable, highly available distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with system-level testing and automation, including performance, load, reliability, or fault-injection testing.
  • Understanding of distributed-systems concepts, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software-development practices.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, data-plane platforms, or Infrastructure as Code (preferred).

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