Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 46 days 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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The Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure will join the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team to lead the design and evolution of foundational distributed systems. This role involves building highly scalable, elastic, and fault-tolerant services for high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing. Key responsibilities include optimizing high-throughput data paths, defining scalability requirements, and managing distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns. The engineer will utilize object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go to implement robust security controls and Infrastructure as Code. The position focuses on solving complex technical problems related to network partitions, reliability, and multi-tenant cloud infrastructure. Candidates must demonstrate expertise in distributed systems design, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and production incident response within a hyperscale cloud environment.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AWS Azure Google Cloud Java C++ C# Go Infrastructure as Code Microservices Observability Networking Operating Systems Security Controls

What you'll do

Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of core distributed systems and data-plane services at hyperscale.
Define scalability, elasticity, durability, and availability requirements for all owned components.
Optimize high-throughput data paths for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing using distributed state and replication.
Design fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates through redundancy and automatic failover.
Establish service-level objectives, key performance indicators, telemetry, and proactive alerting for critical systems.
Lead performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing to validate system resilience and correctness.
Build Infrastructure as Code and operational automation to enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks.
Apply robust security controls and remediation practices for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.

What we're looking for

Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
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 demonstrated 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 practices.
Experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Experience with system-level test automation, performance/load testing, reliability engineering, and production incident response.
Demonstrated experience leading or influencing technical architecture and mentoring engineers.

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