Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Austin, TXSeattleSanta Clara, CA
Salary
$89,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted
3 days ago

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $174k
This role $149k
$75k most similar roles pay here $224k

This role pays less than 70% of similar roles. Most pay $144,837–$204,025 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $149k versus about $174k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Oracle

Oracle Corporation is a leading multinational technology company specializing in database software, cloud computing, and enterprise software.

Oracle currently has 789 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $97,500–$209,500 across 592 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

As a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer at this leading tech company in Seattle, you will join a dedicated team of engineers to design and develop robust backend services and distributed systems for OCI. Your day-to-day responsibilities include building highly scalable workflows, improving service reliability and security, and participating in architecture discussions to ensure operational excellence. You will work with modern programming languages like Java or Python, and leverage cloud platforms, containerized services, and CI/CD tools to deliver high-quality solutions. Ideal candidates have a strong background in backend services, large-scale distributed systems, and experience designing APIs and asynchronous workflows for production environments. This role demands expertise in system design, concurrency management, and troubleshooting complex issues while fostering a collaborative engineering culture.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop production-grade cloud services for OCI.
  • Build large-scale distributed systems with clear APIs and high availability.
  • Develop scalable workflows for automation and lifecycle management of services.
  • Improve service reliability, observability, performance, and security at scale.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive long-term fixes proactively.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience building backend services and large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages like Java or Python.
  • Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, and system design.
  • Experience designing APIs, asynchronous workflows, and production-ready software components.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerized services, CI/CD, observability, and operational practices.
  • Ability to reason about reliability, latency, scalability, state transitions, retries, backpressure, and trade-offs.
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative engineering mindset.

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