Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CASeattle, WA
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$79,200–$209,500 / yr
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2 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

The Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer joins the Product and Research team to own feature delivery and build efficient data paths. You will turn objectives into detailed designs, maintainable code, and integrated features while implementing packet forwarding, encapsulation, virtual networking, and storage integration. Daily tasks involve choosing data structures, managing memory, and using benchmarks or packet captures to diagnose throughput and latency issues. You must possess strong C or C++ skills, experience in networking data plane development, and knowledge of Ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP, and routing. The role requires expertise in Linux concurrent programming and the storage I/O path. You will work with technologies like DPDK, DPU acceleration, NVMe, and RDMA to solve complex networking and storage performance problems within the infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Turn defined objectives into detailed designs, maintainable code, and integrated features.
  • Implement packet forwarding, encapsulation, virtual networking, and storage integration features.
  • Select appropriate data structures, synchronization methods, and memory management approaches.
  • Use benchmarks, packet captures, and profiling tools to diagnose throughput, latency, CPU, and memory issues.
  • Investigate how network behavior affects storage I/O path latency and throughput.
  • Add instrumentation, test error paths, and diagnose issues during integration and production support.
  • Review code, document interfaces, and provide technical guidance to teammates.
  • Validate AI-generated outputs for coding, testing, and documentation to ensure correctness.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience in systems or infrastructure software, including hands-on networking data plane development.
  • Strong C or C++ skills, including debugging, memory management, and concurrent programming on Linux.
  • Working knowledge of packet processing and networking fundamentals, including Ethernet, IP, TCP/UDP, routing, and switching.
  • Experience implementing or debugging networking software such as forwarding, encapsulation, virtual switching, or network policy.
  • Familiarity with the basic storage I/O path, latency, throughput, and failure handling.
  • Experience with automated testing, debugging or profiling tools, and using measurements to explain software behavior.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with DPDK, DPU acceleration, storage software (NVMe, RDMA), or hardware validation (PCIe, DMA, SR-IOV) (preferred).

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