Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 30 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Similar $181k

This role $175k

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TL;DR · Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

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As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, you will join the team to lead the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems. You will be responsible for designing fault-tolerant components that support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads while ensuring data integrity through replication and synchronization. Your daily work involves optimizing code and data paths, implementing load-shedding and rate-limiting to manage network unreliability, and building proactive monitoring dashboards and alerts. To succeed, you must possess expertise in Java, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, API development, and CI/CD tools. You will also leverage infrastructure as code for automated deployments and security compliance. This role focuses on solving complex problems related to large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing within a multi-tenant environment, ensuring high availability and durability while mentoring peers and driving technical excellence across the core infrastructure platform.

Skills

Distributed Systems Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Java Infrastructure as Code (IaC) CI/CD System Design API Development High Availability Networking RDMA Data Processing Telemetry Monitoring Security Cloud Architecture

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 mechanisms.
Establish KPIs and build custom dashboards and alerting systems to monitor system health and performance.
Conduct complex validation testing including fault injection and brownouts to ensure system correctness and durability.
Proactively diagnose and resolve production issues while mentoring peers on troubleshooting and incident response.
Implement robust 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

Candidates must have 6 to 10+ years of relevant experience.
Proficiency in Java and API development is required.
Expertise in distributed systems, high availability systems, and cloud architecture is required.
Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and CI/CD tools is required.
Strong skills in system design and technical leadership are necessary.
Ability to provide effective technical communication and use workflow software is required.
Proficiency in networking and AI infrastructure protocols like RDMA is preferred.
Must be able to read, write, and speak English.