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The Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer joins the OCI Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management team to lead the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems. This role involves designing and maintaining backend services, APIs, and workflow automation to improve how the organization manages infrastructure capacity, sources resources, and plans for future demand. Key responsibilities include optimizing code for high-throughput workloads, implementing fault-tolerant designs with redundancy and replication, and establishing telemetry for proactive monitoring. The candidate will utilize Java, Python, Go, or C# to build production-ready systems while applying software engineering fundamentals like data structures and algorithms. The work addresses complex technical challenges in infrastructure sourcing, forecasting services, and data integration to improve decision quality and operational visibility across engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance departments.
Architect and develop scalable distributed systems to support horizontal and vertical scaling for hyper-scale workloads.
Optimize code and data paths for high-throughput requirements 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 monitoring system health.
Design and execute complex validation tests, including fault injection and brown-out scenarios, to ensure system correctness.
Diagnose and resolve production issues while mentoring peers on troubleshooting and operational readiness.
Implement security controls, encryption, and access management to protect data in multi-tenant environments.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools to manage cloud infrastructure patching and rollbacks.
What we're looking for
Must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
Must have 7+ years of professional software development experience.
Must have strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, C#, or a comparable language.
Must have experience designing, building, and deploying cloud-native services and APIs in cloud environments.
Must have strong software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, system design, and experience with relational and/or distributed databases.
Must have experience with modern software development practices including CI/CD, automated testing, source control, monitoring, observability, debugging, and production reliability.
Must have experience owning technical designs, collaborating on architecture decisions, and coordinating implementation across engineering teams.
Must have 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