Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted
35 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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TL;DR · Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

The Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer joins the Host Provisioning Services team to develop scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure systems for the OCI compute platform. This role focuses on automating the full server lifecycle, including rack integration, hardware bring-up, firmware management, and customer-ready instance provisioning. The engineer will build microservices and automation pipelines to manage server provisioning at hyperscale, enable firmware pinning, and provide telemetry-based observability. Key technical responsibilities involve integrating with low-level components such as BMCs, NICs, SmartNICs, ILOMs, GPUs, and custom firmware stacks while supporting new silicon platforms from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel. The role addresses the critical intersection of bare metal hardware and full-stack orchestration frameworks to ensure high availability and operational efficiency across a global fleet of next-generation clusters and composable hardware environments.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure systems for OCI's host provisioning services.
  • Build microservices and automation pipelines for server provisioning, firmware updates, and lifecycle management.
  • Integrate software with low-level hardware components including BMCs, NICs, GPUs, and custom firmware stacks.
  • Develop reliable services to support new silicon platforms from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel.
  • Implement features for SmartNIC/HostNIC convergence and RoT security integration.
  • Deliver high availability, telemetry-based observability, and operational efficiency at cloud hyperscale.
  • Drive the evolution of infrastructure into next-generation clusters and composable hardware environments.

What we're looking for

  • Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • Candidates must have 8 to 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience in designing and developing scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure systems is required.
  • Experience building microservices and automation pipelines for server provisioning and lifecycle management is required.
  • Experience integrating with low-level hardware components like BMCs, NICs, SmartNICs, ILOMs, GPUs, and custom firmware stacks is required.
  • Experience developing services to support new silicon platforms (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) and SmartNIC/HostNIC convergence is required.
  • Deep understanding of operating systems, hardware-software integration, distributed services, and cloud-scale automation is required.

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