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Senior Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the Technical Strategy & Oversight team to build Lightweight Infrastructure, a next-generation runtime and platform layer for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance. This role focuses on developing Autonomous OCI, a greenfield initiative designed to create self-healing, resilient cloud services that scale with minimal manual intervention. You will design, implement, and optimize distributed systems components, ensuring high availability through redundancy, replication, and automated failover mechanisms. Day-to-day tasks include performing load testing, managing infrastructure as code, implementing security controls like encryption, and participating in incident response. The role requires proficiency in systems or backend languages such as Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python. Key technical domains include Linux systems, kernel programming, networking fundamentals, distributed state management, and large-scale data processing to solve complex cloud infrastructure challenges.
What does a Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $172500 from 35 postings across 10 companies.
Design and implement distributed systems components that support horizontal and vertical scaling using distributed state management tools.
Build fault-tolerant infrastructure by implementing redundancy, replication, automatic failover, circuit breakers, and retry mechanisms.
Develop automated scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage cloud infrastructure and troubleshoot operational issues.
Create telemetry systems, dashboards, and alert configurations to proactively monitor system health and detect failures.
Perform performance testing, load testing, and fault-injection scenarios to ensure system correctness and reliability.
Participate in incident response rotations, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and author operational runbooks.
Implement advanced security controls including encryption and access management for multi-tenant environments.
Ensure infrastructure compliance with industry standards through consistent documentation and change management practices.
What we're looking for
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
3–5+ years of software engineering experience building reliable services, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
Strong programming skills in at least one system or backend language such as Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python.
Experience with Rust 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 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.
Strong communication, collaboration skills, and an ownership-oriented mindset.
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure as Code
Java
C++
C#
Go
AWS
Oracle Cloud
Azure
Google Cloud
Microservices
fault-injection
Telemetry
Encryption
Data Processing
Software Architecture
Networking
Operating Systems