Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Reston, VA
Salary
$79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $188k
This role $144k
$61k most similar roles pay here $253k

This role pays less than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $154,852–$222,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $144k versus about $188k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

As a Senor Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, you will join the team to design, implement, and optimize components within distributed systems focusing on scalability, resiliency, and operability. You will build fault-tolerant paths using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover while implementing retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to manage network unreliability. Your daily work involves leveraging data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing. You will also develop automation scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting, perform load testing, and create telemetry systems and dashboards to monitor health. The role requires applying advanced security controls like encryption and access management in multi-tenant environments. You will solve complex problems regarding data integrity and availability while ensuring infrastructure complies with industry standards through proactive incident response and root cause analysis.

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What you'll do

  • Design and optimize distributed system components for high scalability, resiliency, and large-scale data processing.
  • Implement fault-tolerant features including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, circuit breakers, and retry mechanisms.
  • Develop automated tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to streamline troubleshooting and cloud infrastructure management.
  • Build monitoring systems featuring custom dashboards, telemetry, and alerts to proactively detect system failures.
  • Conduct performance testing, load testing, and fault-injection scenarios to ensure system correctness and availability.
  • Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis, and author operational runbooks.
  • Apply advanced security controls including encryption and access management for multi-tenant environments.
  • Ensure all infrastructure and code comply with industry standards, documentation requirements, and change management plans.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 3 to 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • Experience designing and optimizing components in distributed systems for scalability, resiliency, and operability is required.
  • Ability to implement fault-tolerant paths including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts is required.
  • Proficiency in developing automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting and maintenance is required.
  • Experience implementing advanced security controls such as encryption and access management is required.
  • Ability to perform performance and load testing on large-scale data processing systems is required.
  • Ability to participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and develop operational runbooks is required.

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