Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted
31 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $144k
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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, you will join the team to design, implement, and optimize components within distributed systems focusing on scalability, resiliency, and operability. You will build fault-tolerant paths using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover while implementing retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to manage network unreliability. Your daily work involves developing automation and Infrastructure as Code for troubleshooting, managing data plane platforms for high-volume retrieval and storage, and performing load testing. You will also be responsible for creating dashboards, telemetry systems, and runbooks to proactively detect issues and manage incident responses. The role requires expertise in advanced security controls like encryption and access management within multi-tenant environments. You will solve complex problems related to large-scale data processing and ensure system correctness through fault-injection testing and standard synchronization techniques.

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What you'll do

  • Design and optimize components in distributed systems for scalability, resiliency, and high-volume data processing.
  • Implement fault-tolerant mechanisms including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
  • Develop automated tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage cloud infrastructure and troubleshoot issues.
  • Build monitoring systems including dashboards, telemetry, and alerts to proactively detect system failures.
  • Conduct performance testing, load testing, and fault-injection scenarios to ensure system correctness.
  • Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis, and author operational runbooks.
  • Apply advanced security controls such as encryption and access management for multi-tenant environments.
  • Ensure all infrastructure complies with industry standards and maintains up-to-date documentation.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 3 to 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Ability to read, write, and speak English.
  • Experience designing and optimizing components in distributed systems for scalability, resiliency, and operability.
  • Proficiency in implementing fault-tolerant paths including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
  • Experience with data plane platforms for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing.
  • Ability to develop automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting and maintenance.
  • Expertise in applying advanced security controls such as encryption and access management.
  • Ability to monitor system health using dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms.

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