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The Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer joins the OCI Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management team to build software solutions for managing infrastructure capacity, sourcing resources, and planning for future demand. You will design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and workflow automation that support critical capacity management processes. Key responsibilities include architecting scalable distributed systems, optimizing data paths for high-throughput workloads, and implementing fault-tolerant components using redundancy and replication. You will utilize Java, Python, Go, or C# to build production systems while managing telemetry, dashboards, and security controls. The role addresses complex technical challenges in infrastructure sourcing, forecasting, and process automation. You will ensure operational readiness by diagnosing production issues, developing Infrastructure as Code, and maintaining compliance within a multi-tenant cloud environment.
Architect and develop scalable distributed systems to support horizontal and vertical scaling for hyper-scale workloads.
Optimize code and data paths for high-throughput processing and large-scale data retrieval and storage.
Design fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, failover, and rate-limiting to meet service level objectives.
Establish KPIs and telemetry to build proactive dashboards and alerting mechanisms for system health monitoring.
Design and execute complex validation tests, including fault injection and brown-out scenarios, to ensure system correctness.
Diagnose and resolve production issues while providing guidance during incident response and root cause investigations.
Implement security controls, encryption, and access management to protect data in multi-tenant environments.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools to manage patching, updates, and rollbacks.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, C#, or a comparable programming language.
Experience designing, building, and deploying cloud-native services and APIs in cloud environments.
Strong software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, system design, and experience with relational and/or distributed databases.
Experience with modern software development practices including CI/CD, automated testing, source control, monitoring, observability, debugging, and production reliability.
Experience owning technical designs, collaborating on architecture decisions, and coordinating implementation across engineering teams.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve software delivery, testing, debugging, and technical documentation.
Java
Python
Go
C#
Distributed Systems
OCI
Kubernetes
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
APIs
Distributed Databases
Data Pipelines
ETL
Microservices
Containers
Monitoring
Observability
Encryption
System Design
Distributed Systems
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Java
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
CI/CD
System Design
API Development
High Availability Systems
Cloud Architecture
Data Replication
Fault Injection
Telemetry
Load Testing
Encryption
Access Controls