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 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) for troubleshooting, manage security controls like encryption and access management, and perform load testing to ensure system correctness. The role addresses the technical challenge of maintaining large-scale data processing and infrastructure stability in multi-tenant environments while ensuring compliance with industry standards through proactive monitoring via dashboards, telemetry systems, and automated alerting mechanisms.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

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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 retries.
  • Develop automated tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to streamline troubleshooting and maintenance.
  • Build monitoring systems including custom dashboards, telemetry, and alerts to proactively detect system failures.
  • Conduct performance testing, load testing, and fault-injection scenarios to ensure system correctness.
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and the creation of operational runbooks.
  • Apply advanced security controls such as encryption and access management for multi-tenant environments.
  • Ensure infrastructure compliance with industry standards through consistent documentation and change management.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must have 3 to 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • 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 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.

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