Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 27 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $175k

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This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$208,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $175k versus about $177k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the Observability & Supervision team to build and maintain Kilt, the foundational platform for OCI services. This role focuses on developing distributed control loops and systems that collect metrics and logs from every host and service to automate actions like scaling capacity or triggering recovery. The engineer will design fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable components using redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms while managing network unreliability through load-shedding and rate-limiting. Key responsibilities include architecting scalable distributed systems, optimizing data paths for high-throughput workloads, and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated deployments. The role requires expertise in designing complex validation scenarios like fault injection and brownouts to ensure system correctness. This position addresses the critical challenge of maintaining real-time distributed systems with strict latency budgets where accurate, rapid decisions are vital for fleet stability.

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Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Cloud Infrastructure Observability Telemetry Data Processing rate‑limiting Fault Injection Scalability Incident Management Security Controls Encryption SLOs

What you'll do

Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems that support high-throughput and hyper-scale workloads.
Design fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover to ensure system reliability.
Implement mechanisms for handling network unreliability, including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
Establish KPIs and build complex dashboards and alerting systems to monitor infrastructure health.
Design and execute complex validation tests, such as fault injection and brownouts, to ensure data integrity.
Proactively diagnose, debug, and resolve production issues while mentoring peers in incident response.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools for safe patching, updates, and rollbacks.
Implement robust security controls and maintain compliance documentation for multi-tenant environments.

What we're looking for

Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Candidates should have 3 to 5+ years of experience in relevant fields.
Experience designing and architecting scalable, elastic distributed systems is required.
Proficiency in optimizing code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads is required.
Ability to design fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and load-shedding techniques is required.
Experience establishing KPIs, telemetry, and building proactive dashboards and alerting mechanisms is required.
Skills in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for cloud infrastructure are required.
Ability to implement robust security controls and maintain compliance documentation is required.

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