Core Infrastructure Engineer 2

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Short term and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Core Infrastructure Software Engineer to design, develop, and operate highly available microservices across control plane and data plane. You will contribute across the product lifecycle, automate workflows, and improve reliability and efficiency.

A hands-on, self-motivated approach will help tackle high-availability and scalability challenges. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in systems or backend development, strong knowledge of distributed systems, and a willingness to apply

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with systems or application development.
• 3+ years of experience with distributed systems or backend development.
• Proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn and responsibly apply AI/LLM tools, skills, and automation to improve engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices across control plane, connectivity, distributed-systems data plane, and Linux daemon technologies.
• Contribute throughout the product lifecycle, from conceptualization and product definition through design, development, launch, and operational maturity.
• Identify opportunities to automate engineering workflows across development, testing, troubleshooting, operations, and documentation, leveraging AI-assisted and agentic approaches where appropriate.
• Measure and improve reliability, delivery velocity, operational efficiency, customer outcomes, and engineering productivity, while sharing effective practices across the team.
• You should be a hands-on, adaptable, and self-motivated engineer who learns quickly, applies new tools thoughtfully, and enjoys solving challenging high-availability and scalability problems.

Skills

Systems development

Distributed systems

Data structures

AI/LLM tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Job Description

Implements and optimizes components within existing distributed systems under guidance. Applies basic scalability requirements, conducts performance/load testing, and configures resiliency features (retries, circuit breakers, timeouts) to handle network variability. Builds telemetry, alerts, and runbook-driven procedures; delivers scoped features and fault-injection tests; and helps implement basic data replication and synchronization. Assists with on-call rotations, uses automation/IaC scripts to troubleshoot, and follows change, security, and compliance procedures (encryption, access controls, remediation plans) while escalating complex issues to senior engineers.

Job Description

Implements and optimizes components within existing distributed systems under guidance. Applies basic scalability requirements, conducts performance/load testing, and configures resiliency features (retries, circuit breakers, timeouts) to handle network variability. Builds telemetry, alerts, and runbook-driven procedures; delivers scoped features and fault-injection tests; and helps implement basic data replication and synchronization. Assists with on-call rotations, uses automation/IaC scripts to troubleshoot, and follows change, security, and compliance procedures (encryption, access controls, remediation plans) while escalating complex issues to senior engineers.

Responsibilities

As a Core Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will:

• Design, develop, and operate highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices across control plane, connectivity, distributed-systems data plane, and Linux daemon technologies.
• Contribute throughout the product lifecycle, from conceptualization and product definition through design, development, launch, and operational maturity.
• Identify opportunities to automate engineering workflows across development, testing, troubleshooting, operations, and documentation, leveraging AI-assisted and agentic approaches where appropriate.
• Measure and improve reliability, delivery velocity, operational efficiency, customer outcomes, and engineering productivity, while sharing effective practices across the team.
• You should be a hands-on, adaptable, and self-motivated engineer who learns quickly, applies new tools thoughtfully, and enjoys solving challenging high-availability and scalability problems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with systems or application development.
• 3+ years of experience with distributed systems or backend development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• Proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
• Experience with distributed systems, including familiarity with CAP theorem, consensus, messaging, and high availability.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn and responsibly apply AI/LLM tools, skills, and automation to improve engineering workflows.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $70,000 - $166,100 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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