Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 11 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $144k

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TL;DR · Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

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As a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, you will join the team to design, implement, and optimize components within distributed systems focused on scalability, resiliency, and operability. You will build fault-tolerant paths using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover while implementing recovery-oriented principles like circuit breakers and timeouts. Your daily work involves developing automation for troubleshooting, managing infrastructure as code, and performing load testing to ensure high-volume data retrieval and processing. The role requires expertise in C/C++, DPDK, Linux kernels, and device drivers to solve complex problems in high-concurrency environments. You will also manage security controls like encryption and access management while ensuring compliance for multi-tenant systems. This position addresses the technical challenges of maintaining large-scale data plane architectures and providing reliable, high-performance network solutions within a fast-paced, evolving software development environment.

Skills

C/C++ DPDK Linux Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Distributed Systems Cloud Infrastructure Data Plane Performance Testing Telemetry Circuit Breakers Encryption High-Concurrency Systems Device Drivers

What you'll do

Design and optimize distributed system components for high-volume data processing, scalability, and resiliency.
Implement fault-tolerant mechanisms including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, circuit breakers, and retries.
Develop automation scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to streamline troubleshooting and maintenance.
Build custom dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor system health.
Conduct performance testing, load testing, and fault-injection scenarios to ensure system correctness.
Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and author operational runbooks.
Apply advanced security controls including encryption and access management for multi-tenant environments.
Manage cloud infrastructure compliance, documentation, and change management protocols.

What we're looking for

Must have 3+ years of experience in engineering, architecture, or development/operations.
Must possess strong experience working on data plane architectures in networking devices.
Must have strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
Must have experience designing and optimizing high-performance network solutions using DPDK and C/C++.
Must have experience with Linux OSes/kernels, device drivers, performance testing tools, and distributed debugging tools.
Must possess expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Must demonstrate strong communication, organization, and interpersonal skills in a fast-paced environment.

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