Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $144k
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This role pays less than 89% of similar roles. Most pay $161,737–$216,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $144k versus about $189k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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 features for horizontal and vertical scale using distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns. You will also perform performance, load, and fault-injection testing to ensure operational readiness. The role requires proficiency in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go. Key technical competencies include experience with data-plane platforms, microservices, Infrastructure as Code, and multi-tenant security controls. You will solve complex problems related to distributed storage, state management, and large-scale data processing within a cloud infrastructure environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $196750 from 2011 postings across 148 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, implement, test, 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.
  • Strengthen service reliability through redundancy, automatic failover, recovery-oriented design, and circuit breakers.
  • Execute performance, load, and fault-injection tests to validate scalability and operational readiness.
  • Create dashboards, alarms, telemetry, and automation to proactively detect issues and accelerate recovery.
  • Diagnose production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and perform root-cause analyses.
  • Develop infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for maintenance, patching, and rollbacks.
  • Implement security controls including encryption and access controls 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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