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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 automatic failover. Day-to-day responsibilities include performing load testing, managing data plane platforms for large-scale processing, and implementing Infrastructure as Code for automated troubleshooting. The role requires proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python. Candidates must possess strong foundations in distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and concurrency to solve complex problems regarding cloud infrastructure scalability and security.
What does a Engineer earn?
Median $181250 from 219 postings across 54 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 resources and troubleshoot operational issues.
Create telemetry systems, dashboards, and alert configurations to proactively monitor and detect system failures.
Conduct performance and load testing to ensure high-volume data processing and system reliability.
Execute incident response, perform root cause analysis, and author runbooks for operational recovery.
Implement advanced security controls including encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments.
Develop automated test scenarios such as fault-injection and brown-outs to verify system correctness.
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.
Proficiency in at least one systems 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