Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 43 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

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The Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer joins the Virtual Machine Data Plane team to build hypervisor technology powering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure virtual machines. This role involves developing virtualization capabilities to enable secure, high-performance, multi-tenant compute across Intel, AMD, and Arm architectures. You will build live-migration technology for transparent VM movement, strengthen security through Shielded Instances and Confidential Computing, and solve complex systems problems involving CPU virtualization, memory management, device emulation, networking, storage, and fault recovery. Key responsibilities include designing host-side software, building automated validation and stress testing, and instrumenting services with telemetry. The position requires expertise in systems programming, operating systems, virtualization, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and performance engineering to ensure cloud compute remains resilient, secure, and available for millions of workloads.

Skills

Hypervisor Virtualization Systems Programming Intel AMD Arm Cloud Infrastructure Distributed Systems Performance Engineering Networking Storage Device Emulation Telemetry Configuration Management

What you'll do

Design and build hypervisor software to ensure secure isolation of multi-tenant virtual machines at cloud scale.
Optimize OCI compute platforms across Intel, AMD, and Arm architectures for performance and reliability.
Develop live-migration technology to move running VMs between physical hosts with minimal disruption.
Build fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates, automatic recovery, and high availability.
Resolve complex system issues involving CPU virtualization, memory management, networking, and storage.
Create automated validation, performance testing, and fault-injection for new hardware platforms and features.
Implement security capabilities such as Shielded Instances and Confidential Computing to protect workload integrity.
Develop automation tools for deployment, configuration management, and the rollout of hypervisor changes.

What we're looking for

Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Experience in systems programming, operating systems, virtualization, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or performance engineering is relevant.
The role requires 3 to 5+ years of experience.
Candidates must possess software engineering skills.

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