Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k

This role $144k

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This role pays less than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $144k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, you will join the team building and operating the foundational distributed systems behind Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will design, implement, and optimize scalable components for high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing while ensuring correctness, security, and observability. Your daily work involves developing features for horizontal and vertical scale using distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns. You will also perform performance, load, and fault-injection testing, manage infrastructure as code, and participate in on-call rotations to resolve production issues. The role requires proficiency in object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go. You must possess a deep understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software development practices within multi-tenant cloud environments.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $196500 from 2013 postings across 147 companies.

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Skills

Java C++ C# Go Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AWS Azure Google Cloud Infrastructure as Code Distributed Systems Microservices Observability Data Processing Networking Security Controls

What you'll do

Design, implement, test, 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.
Strengthen service reliability through redundancy, automatic failover, recovery-oriented design, and circuit breakers.
Execute performance, load, and fault-injection tests to validate scalability and operational readiness.
Create dashboards, alarms, telemetry, and automation to proactively detect issues and accelerate recovery.
Diagnose production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and perform root-cause analyses for incident response.
Develop infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for maintenance, patching, and rollbacks.
Implement security controls including encryption and access controls 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 (fewer years acceptable for advanced degree holders).
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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