Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

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Similar $183k

This role $144k

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This role pays less than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $151,168–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $144k versus about $183k 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 building and operating the foundational distributed systems behind Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will design, implement, and optimize scalable components for high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing while ensuring correctness, security, and observability. Your daily work involves developing resilient services using replication, synchronization, and fault-tolerant patterns like circuit breakers and retries. You will also perform performance testing, manage incident response, and develop Infrastructure as Code to automate maintenance. The role requires proficiency in object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go. Key technical competencies include distributed systems concepts, data structures, algorithms, networking, and secure software development. You will solve complex problems related to multi-tenant environments, data-plane platforms, microservices, and large-scale data processing for cloud infrastructure.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $196500 from 2013 postings across 147 companies.

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Skills

Java C++ C# Go Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AWS Azure Google Cloud Infrastructure as Code Distributed Systems Microservices Observability Data Processing Networking Security Controls Fault-Injection Testing

What you'll do

Design, implement, and optimize components of large-scale distributed systems and data-plane services.
Build scalable infrastructure using distributed state, replication, synchronization, and high-volume data processing patterns.
Enhance service reliability through redundancy, automatic failover, and recovery-oriented design.
Execute performance, load, and fault-injection tests to validate system scalability and operational readiness.
Create dashboards, telemetry, and automation tools to proactively detect issues and accelerate recovery.
Participate in on-call rotations and perform root-cause analysis for production incidents.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated maintenance, patching, and rollbacks.
Implement security controls including encryption and access management 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 (fewer years acceptable for advanced degree holders).
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.
Experience with cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (preferred).
Experience with data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, state management, replication, or large-scale data processing (preferred).

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