Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 14 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 $166k

This role $144k

$61k most similar roles pay here $253k

This role pays less than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$187,025 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $144k versus about $166k 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 design, implement, and optimize components within distributed systems focused on scalability, resiliency, and operability. You will build fault-tolerant paths using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover while implementing recovery-oriented principles such as retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts. Your daily work involves leveraging data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing. You will also develop automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage cloud infrastructure and troubleshoot operational issues. Key technical requirements include performing load testing, managing telemetry systems, and applying advanced security controls like encryption in multi-tenant environments. This role solves critical challenges in large-scale data processing and system reliability to ensure high availability and seamless performance for users without requiring maintenance windows.

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Skills

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

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.
Conduct performance and load testing to ensure system stability under heavy demand.
Build monitoring infrastructure including custom dashboards, telemetry systems, and automated alerting for proactive issue detection.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation scripts for troubleshooting and cloud infrastructure management.
Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis, and author operational runbooks.
Implement advanced security controls such as encryption and access management to protect multi-tenant environments.
Ensure all system components comply with data integrity standards and corporate security policies.

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 distributed systems for scalability, resiliency, and operability.
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.
Ability to implement advanced security controls such as encryption and access controls in multi-tenant environments is required.
Experience with performance and load testing for large-scale data processing is required.
Ability to perform incident response, root cause analysis, and develop operational runbooks is required.