Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 41 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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The Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the team to design, implement, and optimize components within large-scale distributed systems. This role focuses on building foundational infrastructure for high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing while ensuring scalability, resiliency, and operability. Key responsibilities include developing fault-tolerant paths using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover, as well as implementing circuit breakers, retries, and timeouts. The engineer will perform load and performance testing, create telemetry dashboards, and manage Infrastructure as Code for maintenance. Required technical skills include proficiency in Java, C++, C#, or Go, along with experience in distributed systems, networking, and secure software development. The work involves solving complex problems related to data-plane services, state management, and multi-tenant security controls within a cloud infrastructure environment.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code Java C++ Go C# Oracle Cloud AWS Azure Google Cloud Microservices Observability Fault-Injection Testing Encryption Networking Data Structures Algorithms

What you'll do

Design, implement, and optimize components for large-scale distributed systems and data-plane services.
Build scalable components using distributed state, replication, synchronization, and high-volume data-processing patterns.
Strengthen service reliability through redundancy, automatic failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
Execute performance, load, and fault-injection tests to validate scalability and operational readiness.
Create dashboards, alarms, telemetry, and runbooks to proactively detect issues and accelerate recovery.
Diagnose production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to root-cause analyses.
Develop infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for maintenance, patching, and rollbacks.
Apply security controls including encryption, access management, and vulnerability remediation in multi-tenant environments.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
4+ years of professional software-development experience; advanced degree holders may have fewer years of experience.
Proficiency in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
Experience building or operating scalable, highly available distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
Experience with system-level testing and automation, including performance, load, reliability, or fault-injection testing.
Understanding of distributed-systems concepts, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software-development practices.
Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Experience with cloud platforms, data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, or observability (preferred).