Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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On-site
Location
Nashville, TNSeattle, WA
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$114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted
44 days ago
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TL;DR · Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems designed to support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads. You will be responsible for optimizing code and data paths, leveraging data plane platforms for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing while ensuring system reliability through redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms. Your daily work involves designing fault-tolerant components that handle network unreliability via load-shedding and rate-limiting to meet strict service level objectives. You will also build telemetry systems, proactive dashboards, and complex validation tests like fault injection. To ensure operational excellence, you will implement robust security controls, manage infrastructure as code (IaC) for automated updates, and mentor peers. This role focuses on building the foundational architecture for cloud-native infrastructure to solve complex problems in distributed system reliability and performance.

What you'll do

  • Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems to support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads.
  • Optimize code and data paths for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing using data plane platforms.
  • Design fault-tolerant systems featuring redundancy, replication, failover, and automated load-shedding to meet SLOs.
  • Establish KPIs and build custom dashboards and alerting systems to monitor system health proactively.
  • Conduct complex validation testing including fault injection and brownouts to ensure system correctness and durability.
  • Resolve production issues through proactive troubleshooting and participate in incident response rotations.
  • Implement security controls, encryption, and compliance documentation for multi-tenant environments.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools to manage cloud infrastructure and deployment cycles.

What we're looking for

  • Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • 3 to 5+ years of experience in infrastructure or related fields.
  • Experience designing and architecting scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput workloads.
  • Ability to implement robust security controls and maintain compliance documentation for cloud infrastructure.
  • Proficiency in developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripts for system management.
  • Experience building telemetry systems, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to monitor system health.
  • Ability to perform proactive troubleshooting, incident management, and root cause analysis.
  • Capability to mentor peers and contribute to the talent development pipeline through candidate interviews.

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