Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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

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Below market

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This role $144k
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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, you will join the team to design, implement, and optimize components within distributed systems focusing on scalability, resiliency, and operability. You will build fault-tolerant paths using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover while implementing recovery-oriented principles like circuit breakers and timeouts. Your daily work involves developing features, performing load and performance tests, and managing data plane platforms for high-volume retrieval and storage. You will also manage infrastructure as code, develop automation scripts for troubleshooting, and implement advanced security controls such as encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments. The role addresses the technical challenge of maintaining system correctness and availability through proactive monitoring via telemetry and dashboards, while ensuring all cloud infrastructure complies with industry standards and documentation requirements during incident response and routine maintenance.

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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 mechanisms including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
  • Develop automation scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage cloud infrastructure and troubleshoot operations.
  • Build monitoring systems including custom dashboards, telemetry, and automated alerts to proactively detect system failures.
  • Conduct performance testing, load testing, and fault-injection scenarios to ensure system correctness and stability.
  • Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis, and author operational runbooks.
  • Implement advanced security controls such as encryption and access management for multi-tenant environments.
  • Review peer code and implementations to ensure compliance with scalability and performance standards.

What we're looking for

  • Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • Candidates must have 3 to 5+ years of experience in software engineering or related fields.
  • Experience is required in designing and optimizing components for distributed systems with a focus on scalability and resiliency.
  • Proficiency in implementing fault-tolerant paths including redundancy, replication, and automatic failover is required.
  • Skills in developing automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud infrastructure management are required.
  • Experience applying advanced security controls such as encryption and access management is required.
  • Ability to perform performance and load testing on large-scale data processing systems is required.
  • Experience with monitoring tools, including telemetry, dashboards, and alert configurations, is required.

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