Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Santa Clara, CASeattle, WA
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

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Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer (OCI Object Storage) joins the Object Storage Service team to develop large-scale distributed infrastructure within a multi-tenant cloud environment. This role involves architecting and building scalable, elastic distributed systems that support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads. The engineer will design fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms while implementing load-shedding and rate-limiting to manage network unreliability. Key responsibilities include establishing telemetry for proactive monitoring, designing complex validation scenarios like fault injection, and ensuring data integrity through synchronization techniques. The position requires expertise in Java, Cloud Engineering, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage. The role focuses on solving technical challenges related to large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing while maintaining high availability and security standards for enterprise-class workloads within the cloud infrastructure space.

Skills

OCI Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Java Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code Cloud Engineering Software Engineering Data Replication Telemetry rate‑limiting Fault Injection

What you'll do

Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems using distributed state management tools.
Optimize code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads and large-scale data processing.
Design fault-tolerant systems featuring redundancy, replication, failover, and automated load-shedding to meet SLOs.
Establish KPIs and build custom dashboards and telemetry systems to monitor system health proactively.
Develop complex validation scenarios including fault injection and brownouts to ensure data integrity and durability.
Proactively diagnose and resolve production issues while mentoring peers on troubleshooting processes.
Implement robust security controls, encryption, and access management for multi-tenant cloud environments.
Create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools to manage updates, patching, and rollbacks.

What we're looking for

Candidates must have 6 to 10+ years of experience in the field.
Proficiency in Java programming is required.
Expertise in software engineering and cloud engineering is required.
Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and OCI Object Storage is required.
Ability to read, write, and speak English is required.

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