Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted
4 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

Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the DNS Control Plane team to design, build, and operate systems that govern DNS at global scale. This role focuses on developing control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, views, policies, and routing configurations while ensuring high availability and auditability. The engineer will implement reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, and lifecycle management across distributed infrastructure. Key responsibilities include building fault-tolerant paths, managing observability through metrics and logs, and participating in incident response. The role requires proficiency in Java for production services, Python for automation, and experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Candidates must possess expertise in distributed systems, Linux networking, and API design. The work addresses the technical challenge of transforming platform intent into resilient, scalable DNS behavior within a complex distributed cloud environment.

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, policies, and routing configurations.
  • Build reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, and lifecycle management across distributed infrastructure.
  • Develop production services and libraries primarily in Java with supporting automation scripts in Python.
  • Utilize AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate implementation, testing, and incident investigation.
  • Improve operational resilience through idempotent workflows, canary releases, feature flags, and robust rollback paths.
  • Manage observability and operational readiness including metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, and active on-call participation.
  • Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for automated troubleshooting, maintenance, and configuration management.
  • Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring of other engineers.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and operating resilient production services.
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade distributed systems, cloud services, or control-plane platforms.
  • Strong proficiency in Java for production service development, concurrent programming, and performance troubleshooting.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
  • Strong API design skills including RESTful service design and OpenAPI/Swagger contracts.
  • Experience designing reliable stateful workflows involving asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
  • Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and high-availability distributed systems.
  • Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.

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