Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TNSeattle, WAAustin, TX
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 58 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 lead the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems to support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads. You will be responsible for optimizing code and data paths, designing fault-tolerant components with redundancy and replication, and implementing mechanisms like load-shedding and rate-limiting to manage network unreliability while meeting strict service level objectives. Your daily work involves building telemetry dashboards, performing complex validation through fault injection, and managing infrastructure as code to ensure seamless updates. The role requires expertise in Java or similar object-oriented languages, distributed systems concepts such as the CAP theorem and consensus, and experience with Linux and Windows environments. You will solve critical problems regarding data integrity, security controls in multi-tenant environments, and the development of cloud products specifically focused on network and security infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed Systems Java Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Linux Windows Networking Data Structures Algorithms RDMA Telemetry Security Engineering High Availability Scalability

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, debug, and resolve production issues while mentoring peers in incident response.
Implement robust security controls, encryption, and access management 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 have 6 to 10+ years of experience in the relevant field.
Must have 8+ years of experience in security engineering, application development, or a related field.
Must have 6+ years of experience with systems/application development.
Must have 4+ years of experience with distributed systems or network programming.
Ability to write code in Java or similar object-oriented languages.
Proficiency in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and Windows and Linux environments.
Experience building automated network and security solutions for cloud products.
Expertise in distributed systems concepts including CAP theorem, Consensus, messaging, and High Availability.