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
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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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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

Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins a team focused on solving foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems within the cloud infrastructure domain. You will design, implement, and optimize components for large-scale data processing while ensuring system scalability, resiliency, and operability. Day-to-day responsibilities include building fault-tolerant paths through redundancy and replication, implementing circuit breakers and timeouts to manage network unreliability, and developing automation scripts using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for maintenance. You will also perform load testing, create telemetry dashboards, and participate in incident response and root cause investigations. The role requires expertise in distributed state management tools, advanced security controls like encryption and access management, and the ability to develop automated deployment workflows. You will solve complex problems regarding high-volume data retrieval and storage while ensuring infrastructure remains safe, verifiable, and traceable at scale.

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What you'll do

  • Design and optimize distributed systems for high scalability, resiliency, and large-scale data processing.
  • Build fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, automatic failover, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
  • Develop automated tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage cloud infrastructure and troubleshoot issues.
  • Create monitoring systems including 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, conduct root cause analyses, and author operational runbooks.
  • Implement 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

  • Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • Candidates should have 3 to 5+ years of experience in software engineering or related fields.
  • Experience designing and optimizing distributed systems for scalability, resiliency, and operability is required.
  • Proficiency in implementing fault-tolerant paths including redundancy, replication, and automatic failover is required.
  • Ability to implement advanced security controls such as encryption and access management is required.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for managing cloud infrastructure is required.
  • Ability to perform performance testing, load testing, and fault-injection scenarios is required.
  • Skills in developing automation scripts and tools for troubleshooting and maintenance are required.

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