Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Burlington, MASanta Clara, CANashville, TNSeattle, WA
Salary
$114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted
24 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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 for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads. You will be responsible for optimizing code and data paths, managing large-scale retrieval and storage via data plane platforms, and ensuring system reliability through redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms. Your daily work involves designing fault-tolerant components to handle network unreliability using load-shedding and rate-limiting while maintaining strict service level objectives. You will establish telemetry, build proactive monitoring dashboards, and conduct complex validation like fault injection. Additionally, you will implement robust security controls in multi-tenant environments, manage compliance documentation, and develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate patching and rollbacks. This role focuses on solving critical infrastructure challenges involving data integrity, availability, and automated operational readiness for large-scale distributed systems.

What you'll do

  • Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems that support high-throughput and hyper-scale workloads.
  • Optimize code and data paths while leveraging data plane platforms for large-scale retrieval and processing.
  • Design fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and rate-limiting to ensure reliability and meet SLOs.
  • Establish KPIs, build proactive monitoring dashboards, and design complex validation tests like fault injection.
  • Proactively diagnose and resolve production issues while mentoring peers on operational readiness and troubleshooting.
  • 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 streamline change management.

What we're looking for

  • Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • Candidates must have 6 to 10+ years of experience in the field.
  • Experience is required in architecting and developing scalable, elastic distributed systems.
  • Experience is required in optimizing code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads.
  • Experience is required in designing fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms.
  • Experience is required in implementing robust security controls and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation.
  • Experience is required in proactive troubleshooting, incident management, and mentoring peers.
  • Ability to manage complex projects, coordinate tasks, and collaborate across the organization is required.

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