Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 75 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 team to design, implement, and optimize components within distributed systems, focusing on scalability, resiliency, and operability. This role involves developing highly available microservices across control plane, connectivity, and distributed-systems data plane technologies, as well as Linux daemon technologies. Day-to-day responsibilities include building fault-tolerant paths like redundancy and automatic failover, implementing retries and circuit breakers, and developing automation for troubleshooting. The engineer will utilize data structures, algorithms, and operating systems knowledge to manage high-volume retrieval and storage. Key technical requirements include experience with the CAP theorem, consensus, messaging, and high availability. The position also requires applying AI-assisted and agentic approaches to improve engineering workflows while ensuring security controls like encryption and access remediation are met.

Skills

Distributed Systems Microservices Linux IaC Data Structures Algorithms Operating Systems High Availability Messaging Encryption Telemetry Dashboards AI LLM Replication

What you'll do

Design, develop, and operate highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices.
Build fault-tolerant paths including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, and circuit breakers.
Implement standard replication, synchronization, and advanced security controls like encryption.
Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting and maintenance.
Proactively detect and mitigate issues using tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry.
Author runbooks and participate in incident response and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
Identify and automate engineering workflows using AI-assisted and agentic approaches.
Measure and improve reliability, delivery velocity, and operational efficiency.

What we're looking for

3+ years of experience with systems or application development.
3+ years of experience with distributed systems or backend development.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
Proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
Experience with distributed systems, including familiarity with CAP theorem, consensus, messaging, and high availability.
Demonstrated willingness to learn and responsibly apply AI/LLM tools, skills, and automation to improve engineering workflows.
Ability to read, write, and speak English.

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