Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 27 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $161k

This role $144k

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This role pays less than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$177,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $144k versus about $161k for comparable roles.

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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 a specialized team focused on solving foundational distributed systems, developer platform, and reliability challenges within the cloud infrastructure domain. You will design, implement, and optimize components for large-scale data processing while ensuring system scalability, resiliency, and operability. Your daily work involves building fault-tolerant paths through redundancy and replication, implementing circuit breakers and timeouts to manage network unreliability, and developing automation via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for maintenance. You will also perform load testing, create telemetry dashboards, and participate in incident response and root cause analysis. The role requires expertise in distributed state management tools, advanced security controls like encryption, and automated deployment workflows to ensure that large-scale services can be operated safely and reliably across complex cloud environments.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code (IaC) CI/CD Cloud Infrastructure Data Processing Load Testing Telemetry Alerting Encryption Circuit Breakers System Design Automation

What you'll do

Design and optimize distributed systems for high scalability, resiliency, and large-scale data processing.
Implement fault-tolerant mechanisms including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
Develop automated tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to streamline troubleshooting and maintenance.
Build monitoring infrastructure including custom dashboards, telemetry systems, and proactive alerting configurations.
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.
Manage infrastructure changes through automated CI/CD pipelines while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

What we're looking for

Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
3 to 5+ years of experience in software engineering or related fields.
Experience designing and optimizing distributed systems for scalability, resiliency, and operability.
Ability to implement fault-tolerant mechanisms including redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
Proficiency in implementing performance testing, telemetry, and automated monitoring tools.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for managing cloud infrastructure.
Ability to apply advanced security controls such as encryption and access management.
Capability to perform root cause analysis and participate in incident response.

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