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 the team responsible for building foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability infrastructure. You will design, implement, and optimize components focused on scalability, resiliency, and operability to support large-scale data processing and retrieval. Your daily work involves developing fault-tolerant paths through redundancy, replication, and automatic failover, while implementing recovery-oriented principles like circuit breakers and timeouts. You will also build automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting, manage telemetry systems and dashboards for proactive monitoring, and ensure security via encryption and access controls. The role addresses critical challenges in cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, and operational automation to enable engineers to operate services at scale. Key technical requirements include expertise in distributed state management tools, performance testing, and automated remediation within multi-tenant environments.

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What you'll do

  • Design and optimize distributed system components for high scalability, resiliency, and large-scale data processing.
  • Implement fault-tolerant features including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, circuit breakers, and retry mechanisms.
  • Develop automated infrastructure (IaC) and tooling to streamline troubleshooting and maintenance tasks.
  • Build monitoring systems including custom dashboards, telemetry, and alert configurations to proactively detect failures.
  • Perform load testing, fault injection, and brown-out scenarios to ensure system correctness and performance.
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and the creation of operational runbooks.
  • Apply advanced security controls such as encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments.
  • Ensure all infrastructure complies with industry standards and maintains up-to-date technical documentation.

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.
  • Proficiency in implementing fault-tolerant paths including redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
  • Ability to implement performance testing, load testing, and telemetry systems like dashboards and alerts.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for managing cloud infrastructure and automation.
  • Ability to apply advanced security controls such as encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments.
  • Ability to participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and the creation of operational runbooks.

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