Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 13 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
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 a team focused on solving foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems across OCI. In this role, you will design, implement, and optimize scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems. Your day-to-day responsibilities include building fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts. You will develop Infrastructure as Code, implement security controls like encryption and access controls, and manage operational automation. Key technical skills include leveraging data-plane and distributed state technologies, performing performance and load testing, and utilizing telemetry, dashboards, and alerts for incident response. You will address the technical challenge of enabling engineers to deploy and operate services at unprecedented scale while ensuring data integrity, compliance, and operational excellence through proactive monitoring and root cause analysis.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.

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Skills

Distributed Systems Infrastructure as Code IaC Telemetry Load Testing Incident Response Root Cause Analysis Encryption Access Controls Data-plane distributed state-management Replication Synchronization Cloud Infrastructure Automation

What you'll do

Design and optimize scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems.
Build fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, failover, and circuit breakers.
Implement performance and load testing for large-scale workloads.
Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and operational automation.
Diagnose and resolve production issues through telemetry, dashboards, and root cause analysis.
Implement encryption, access controls, and security remediation measures.
Manage change processes for patching, updates, and system rollbacks.

What we're looking for

Must have 3 to 5+ years of experience.
Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Must be able to design and optimize scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems.
Must have experience with distributed state-management and data-plane technologies.
Must be able to build fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
Must be able to develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and operational automation.
Must be able to perform performance and load testing for large-scale workloads.
Must be able to implement encryption, access controls, and security remediation.