Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 82 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 designing fault-tolerant components that support horizontal and vertical scaling while optimizing code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads. Key responsibilities include implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms to handle network unreliability through load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting. The engineer will establish KPIs, build proactive telemetry dashboards, and design complex validation scenarios like fault injection and brownouts to ensure correctness and durability. Technical requirements include developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud automation, managing security controls in multi-tenant environments, and utilizing data plane platforms for large-scale retrieval and storage. The position focuses on maintaining system availability and meeting service level objectives within complex distributed environments.

Skills

Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code (IaC) System Design Cloud Infrastructure Telemetry KPIs Fault Injection Data Replication Load Testing rate‑limiting Throttling Encryption Access Controls Compliance Automation Monitoring Dashboards Incident Response

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, failover, and rate-limiting to meet SLOs.
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.
Implement security controls, encryption, and access management for multi-tenant cloud environments.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools to manage cloud infrastructure and patching.

What we're looking for

Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
3 to 5+ years of experience 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 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.