Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 responsible for the foundational distributed systems powering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of high-scale data-plane services, focusing on building highly scalable, elastic, and fault-tolerant systems for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing. Your daily work involves optimizing high-throughput data paths using replication and synchronization patterns while ensuring reliability through load shedding, rate limiting, and automated failover. You will manage technical direction regarding security, performance testing, and infrastructure as code to ensure operational readiness. The role requires proficiency in object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go. You must possess deep expertise in distributed systems design, data structures, algorithms, networking, and secure software development practices to solve complex multi-tenant cloud infrastructure challenges.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $196750 from 2011 postings across 148 companies.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AWS Azure Google Cloud Java C++ C# Go Infrastructure as Code Microservices Networking Data Structures Algorithms Security Controls

What you'll do

Lead the design and evolution of core distributed systems and data-plane services at hyperscale.
Define scalability, durability, and availability requirements for all owned components.
Optimize high-throughput data paths for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing using replication patterns.
Design fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates through redundancy and automatic failover.
Implement distributed system controls such as load shedding, throttling, rate limiting, and retries.
Establish service-level objectives, telemetry, and proactive alerting for critical infrastructure.
Lead performance, load, and fault-injection testing to validate system resilience and readiness.
Manage production incident diagnosis, root-cause analysis, and Infrastructure as Code automation.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of professional software engineering experience with impact on large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
Deep understanding of distributed systems design, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software development.
Experience with system-level test automation, performance/load testing, reliability engineering, and production incident response.
Demonstrated experience leading technical architecture and mentoring engineers.
Experience with Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other large-scale cloud platforms (preferred).
Experience with data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, replication, state management, or high-throughput data processing (preferred).

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