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 the team to solve foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems within the OCI environment. You will design, implement, and optimize components for large-scale cloud infrastructure, focusing on scalability, resiliency, and operability. Your daily work involves building fault-tolerant paths through redundancy, replication, and automatic failover while implementing retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to manage network unreliability. You will develop automation scripts using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting and maintenance, while managing data plane platforms for high-volume retrieval and storage. Additionally, you will perform load testing, create telemetry dashboards, and implement advanced security controls like encryption and access management. This role addresses the critical challenge of building trustworthy systems that allow engineers to deploy and operate services at an unprecedented scale.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Cloud Infrastructure Data Processing Load Testing Circuit Breakers Telemetry Alerting Encryption Runbooks Automation Scalability

What you'll do

Design and optimize distributed systems for high-volume data processing, scalability, and reliability.
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 custom dashboards, telemetry, and alerting configurations to proactively detect 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 in multi-tenant environments.

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 components in distributed systems for scalability, resiliency, and operability.
Experience implementing fault-tolerant paths including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
Ability to develop automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting and maintenance.
Ability to implement advanced security controls such as encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments.
Experience with performance and load testing, including fault-injection and brown-out scenarios.
Ability to monitor system health using dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms.

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