Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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This role $144k
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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the team to build and operate foundational distributed systems for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing large-scale distributed systems and data-plane services focused on high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing. Key responsibilities include building for horizontal and vertical scale using replication and synchronization, enhancing service reliability through failover and circuit breakers, and developing infrastructure as code for automated maintenance. The candidate will perform performance, load, and fault-injection testing while managing production issues and incident response. Required skills include proficiency in Java, C++, C#, or Go, along with expertise in data structures, algorithms, networking, and secure software development. This role addresses the technical challenge of ensuring correctness, security, and observability for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure at a global scale.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197875 from 2180 postings across 138 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and optimize components of large-scale distributed systems and data-plane services.
  • Build scalable infrastructure using distributed state, replication, synchronization, and high-volume data-processing patterns.
  • Enhance service reliability through redundancy, automatic failover, and recovery-oriented design.
  • Execute performance, load, and fault-injection tests to validate system scalability and operational readiness.
  • Create dashboards, telemetry, and automation to proactively detect issues and accelerate incident recovery.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and perform root-cause analysis for production incidents.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated maintenance, patching, and rollbacks.
  • Implement security controls including encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4+ years of professional software-development experience (advanced degree holders may have fewer years).
  • Proficiency in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
  • Experience building or operating scalable, highly available distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with system-level testing and automation including performance, load, reliability, or fault-injection testing.
  • Understanding of distributed-systems concepts, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software-development practices.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (preferred).
  • Experience with data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, state management, replication, or large-scale data processing (preferred).

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