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 join the team to lead the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems. You will be responsible for designing fault-tolerant components that support high-throughput, hyper-scale workloads while ensuring data integrity through replication and synchronization. Your daily work involves optimizing code and data paths, establishing KPIs and telemetry, and building proactive dashboards and alerts to monitor system health. To ensure reliability, you will implement load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting to manage network unreliability. You will also develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for safe patching and rollbacks. The role requires expertise in distributed state management tools, encryption techniques, and access controls within multi-tenant environments to solve complex problems regarding system durability, availability, and performance in large-scale data processing environments.

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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 distributed systems using distributed state management tools to support high-throughput workloads.
Optimize code and data paths for hyper-scale processing while ensuring system elasticity and performance.
Design fault-tolerant systems featuring redundancy, replication, failover mechanisms, and load-shedding to meet service level objectives.
Establish telemetry, KPIs, and automated alerting systems to proactively monitor system health and identify gaps.
Develop complex validation scenarios including fault injection and brownouts to ensure data integrity and correctness.
Proactively diagnose and resolve production issues while mentoring peers on troubleshooting and incident response.
Implement robust security controls, encryption, and compliance documentation for multi-tenant environments.
Create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools to manage cloud infrastructure and streamline change management.

What we're looking for

Must have 6 to 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
Ability to read, write, and speak English.
Experience architecting and developing scalable, elastic distributed systems for high-throughput workloads.
Expertise in designing fault-tolerant systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and rate-limiting.
Proficiency in establishing KPIs, telemetry, and building proactive monitoring dashboards and alerts.
Ability to perform complex validation including fault injection and brownout testing.
Experience implementing security controls, encryption, and compliance documentation for multi-tenant environments.
Skill in developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripts for cloud infrastructure management.