Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 83 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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The Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer leads the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems. This role involves optimizing code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads while leveraging data plane platforms for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing. You will design fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms to handle network unreliability through load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting. Key responsibilities include establishing KPIs, building proactive telemetry dashboards, and designing complex validation scenarios like fault injection. You will also implement robust security controls, maintain compliance documentation, and develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated patching and rollbacks. The position requires expertise in distributed state management, data synchronization, and proactive production troubleshooting to ensure system correctness, durability, and adherence to service level objectives.

Skills

Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code (IaC) System Design Cloud Infrastructure Telemetry Load Testing Fault Injection Data Replication Security Controls Encryption Monitoring Dashboards Alerting Scalability rate‑limiting Throttling load‑shedding

What you'll do

Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems to support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads.
Design fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms to meet SLOs.
Implement load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting to manage network unreliability and service disruptions.
Establish KPIs and telemetry to build proactive dashboards and alerting mechanisms for system health.
Design complex validation scenarios, including fault injection and brown-outs, to ensure system correctness.
Diagnose and resolve production issues while providing guidance during incident response and root cause investigations.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools to manage cloud infrastructure and patching.
Implement security controls, encryption, and access management to protect data in multi-tenant environments.

What we're looking for

Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Experience of 3 to 5+ years is required.
Experience architecting and developing scalable, elastic distributed systems is required.
Experience optimizing code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads is required.
Experience designing fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms is required.
Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for cloud infrastructure is required.
Experience implementing security controls, encryption, and access controls in multi-tenant environments is required.
Experience building telemetry systems, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms is required.