Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted
28 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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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

As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, you will join a specialized team focused on building large-scale cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, and operational automation. You will design, implement, and optimize distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability. Your daily work involves developing fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover while implementing retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to manage network unreliability. You will also build telemetry systems, dashboards, and automation scripts using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to proactively monitor health and troubleshoot issues. The role requires expertise in distributed state management tools, data plane platforms for high-volume processing, and advanced security controls like encryption and access management. This position addresses the critical challenge of creating trustworthy, automated deployment pipelines for large-scale cloud services across diverse regions and stacks.

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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.
  • Build monitoring infrastructure such as dashboards, telemetry systems, and automated alerting to proactively detect failures.
  • Develop automation scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting and managing cloud infrastructure.
  • Perform performance testing, load testing, and fault-injection scenarios to ensure system correctness.
  • Participate in incident response, conduct root cause analyses, and author operational runbooks.
  • Apply advanced security controls including encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments.
  • Ensure all infrastructure deployments comply with corporate change management and documentation 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 implementing components for distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and operability.
  • Proficiency in developing fault-tolerant paths including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
  • Ability to implement performance and load testing, as well as telemetry, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms.
  • Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for managing cloud infrastructure and automation.
  • Ability to apply advanced security controls including encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments.
  • Ability to participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and operational support rotations.

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