Principal Software 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 yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $175k

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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As a Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, 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, ensuring system reliability through redundancy, replication, and failover mechanisms while managing network unreliability via load-shedding and rate-limiting. Your daily work involves designing complex validation scenarios like fault injection, establishing telemetry and KPIs, and building proactive monitoring dashboards. You will also implement robust security controls, manage compliance documentation, and develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate cloud infrastructure updates. This role focuses on solving critical problems in data retrieval, storage, and processing within a multi-tenant environment, ensuring high availability and durability while mentoring peers and providing guidance during incident response and root cause investigations.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Data Processing System Design Telemetry Monitoring Alerting rate‑limiting Fault Injection Encryption Automation Scalability

What you'll do

Architect and develop scalable, elastic distributed systems using distributed state management tools.
Optimize code and data paths for high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads and large-scale data processing.
Design fault-tolerant systems featuring redundancy, replication, failover, and automated load-shedding mechanisms.
Establish KPIs, telemetry, and proactive monitoring dashboards to ensure system health and performance.
Create complex validation tests including fault injection and brownouts to ensure data integrity and durability.
Proactively diagnose and resolve production issues while mentoring peers on incident response and root cause analysis.
Implement robust security controls, encryption, and compliance documentation for multi-tenant environments.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripts to manage cloud infrastructure and deployment cycles.

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 software engineering or related fields.
Experience is required in designing and architecting scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput workloads.
Proficiency in implementing fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and rate-limiting is required.
Ability to develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripts for cloud infrastructure management is required.
Experience in designing telemetry, dashboards, and proactive alerting mechanisms for system health is required.
Skills in implementing security controls, encryption, and compliance documentation are required.
Experience in mentoring peers and participating in the talent development pipeline through candidate interviews is required.