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The Senior Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the Technical Strategy & Oversight organization to build foundational systems for OCI. Working on the Autonomous OCI initiative, you will develop Lightweight Infrastructure, the next-generation runtime and platform layer for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance. You will design, implement, and optimize distributed systems components, focusing on scalability, resiliency, and operability. Daily tasks include building fault-tolerant paths like redundancy and automatic failover, implementing circuit breakers, and developing automation via Infrastructure as Code. You will utilize languages such as Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python. Key technical requirements include expertise in distributed systems, kernel programming, and system programming. You will solve the problem of manual operational complexity by creating self-healing services that allow the cloud platform to scale efficiently.
What does a Engineer earn?
Median $178175 from 251 postings across 54 companies.
Design and optimize distributed system components for high scalability, reliability, and large-scale data processing.
Implement fault-tolerant features including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, circuit breakers, and retry mechanisms.
Build monitoring infrastructure such as dashboards, telemetry systems, and automated alerting to proactively detect failures.
Develop automation scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for system maintenance and troubleshooting.
Conduct performance testing, fault-injection scenarios, and load tests to ensure system correctness and availability.
Participate in incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and the creation of operational runbooks.
Apply advanced security controls including encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments.
Ensure infrastructure compliance with industry standards through consistent documentation and remediation plans.
What we're looking for
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
3 to 5+ years of software engineering experience building reliable services, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
Strong programming skills in at least one systems or backend language such as Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python.
Rust experience is a strong plus for compute and systems-oriented roles (preferred).
Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed-systems fundamentals.
Experience or strong interest in cloud infrastructure, virtualization, Linux systems, containers, storage, networking, security, schedulers, control planes, or management planes.
Ability to design, build, test, and debug reliable software in a large, evolving codebase.
Proficiency in distributed systems, kernel programming, and system programming.
C/C++
DPDK
Linux
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Distributed Systems
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Plane
Performance Testing
Circuit Breakers
Telemetry
Encryption
High-Concurrency Systems
Device Drivers
Load Testing
C/C++
DPDK
Linux
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Distributed Systems
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Plane
Device Drivers
Performance Testing
Telemetry
Encryption
Circuit Breakers
Distributed Debugging
High-Concurrency Systems
DPDK
C++
C
Linux
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Distributed Systems
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Plane
Performance Testing
Circuit Breakers
Telemetry
Encryption
High-Concurrency Systems
Device Drivers
Distributed Systems
Java
Go
Rust
C/C++
Linux
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Kernel Programming
System Programming
Cloud Infrastructure
Virtualization
Networking
Storage
Security
Telemetry
Fault Injection
rate‑limiting
Distributed Systems
Java
Go
Rust
C/C++
Linux
Kernel Programming
System Programming
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Cloud Infrastructure
Networking
Storage
Virtualization
Security
Telemetry