Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 32 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(Hybrid) joins the team to build and operate the foundational distributed systems behind Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable components for high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing. You will focus on ensuring correctness, security, and observability by developing features for horizontal and vertical scale using distributed state, replication, and synchronization. Key responsibilities include executing performance and fault-injection tests, creating telemetry dashboards, and managing Infrastructure as Code for safe maintenance. Candidates should be proficient in object-oriented or systems programming languages like Java, C++, C#, or Go. The work addresses the technical challenge of maintaining reliable, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure through redundancy, automatic failover, and robust security controls for global data-plane services.

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Skills

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

What you'll do

Design, implement, test, and optimize components of 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, recovery-oriented design, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
Execute performance, load, and fault-injection tests to validate scalability, correctness, and operational readiness.
Create dashboards, alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and automation to proactively detect issues and accelerate recovery.
Diagnose production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and perform root-cause analyses for durable corrective actions.
Develop infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for maintenance, patching, updates, and rollbacks.
Apply security controls including encryption, access controls, and vulnerability remediation in multi-tenant environments.

What we're looking for

Must have 6 to 10+ years of experience.
Must have a Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Must have 4+ years of professional software-development experience; advanced degree holders may have fewer years of experience.
Must be proficient in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
Must have experience building or operating scalable, highly available distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
Must have experience with system-level testing and automation, including performance, load, reliability, or fault-injection testing.
Must have an understanding of distributed-systems concepts, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software-development practices.
Experience with cloud platforms, data-plane platforms, observability, or Infrastructure as Code is preferred (preferred).