Core Infrastructure Engineer 2

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Matching

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Software Engineer for the Virtual Networking Gateways team to design, build, and test automation for OCI networking fleets, using Terraform and Python. You will contribute to deployment pipelines, write tests, and create and maintain operational runbooks for reliability and efficiency.

You will triage requests from partner service teams, assess fleet-scale impact, and collaborate with cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• Foundational understanding of virtual networking and fleet-scale systems.
• Ability to own well-scoped tasks with limited direction.
• Experience with automation, testing, and runbooks is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assist in planning and executing tasks with minimal supervision.
• Collaborate within the team to align on requirements and deliverables.
• Troubleshoot issues and review data to resolve standard and non-standard errors.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of processes and tooling.
• Support operational runbooks and incident response as needed.

Skills

Problem solving

System design

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Tools

Terraform

Python

C++

Job description

Job Description

As a Software Engineer on the Virtual Networking Gateways team, you will design, build, maintain, and test automation for provisioning, deploying, managing, and operating OCI virtual networking fleets. You will participate directly in fleet operations and change management. You will work primarily in Terraform and Python, contributing to our deployment pipelines. You will improve reliability by writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests as well as by creating and maintaining operational runbooks.

You will manage your assigned work, maintain clear status in the team’s work-tracking system, and triage overlapping requests from partner service teams. This role requires the judgment to assess requests in the context of fleet scale, available capacity, operational risk, and cost; recognize when a request is disproportionate to the existing environment; and engage partner teams directly to clarify requirements and develop feasible approaches, escalating when appropriate.

Candidates should have a foundational understanding of virtual networking and be comfortable owning well-scoped tasks with limited day-to-day direction. Familiarity with C++, experience supporting infrastructure in a hyperscale cloud environment, and experience building infrastructure or tooling for automated testing are beneficial but not required.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture - System Scalability

• Assist in the implementation of components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Optimize code segments and/or systems for large-scale data processing with oversight from senior engineers.
• Implement scalability requirements for assigned components.
• Learn about the use of data plane platforms for large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• Execute performance and load testing, with guidance.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design

• Collaborate with the team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by learning about redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• Learn about recovery oriented computing principles and assist in applying them to component designs.
• Configure and test retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability, with guidance.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance

• Implement testing and alarming configurations to detect issues/failures.
• Support efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures, under guidance.
• Help build dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.

System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability

• Implement functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
• Implement test scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness, under guidance.
• Help implement basic data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management

• Assist in diagnosing and debugging issues in system components to support ongoing operation, under supervision.
• Follow protocols to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• Run basic automation scripts and tooling to troubleshoot operational issues.
• Participate in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security

• Assist in implementing basic security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
• Assist in the execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, under supervision.
• Support the creation and updating of documentation to ensure cloud infrastructure is in compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations.

Automation & Change Management

• Assist in maintaining basic automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)).
• Adhere to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, under guidance.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution

• Track timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements.
• Prioritize and adjust work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Collaborate within the team to better understand expectations and achieve shared objectives.
• Leverage a foundational understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build partnerships with limited guidance.
• Actively listen and ask questions to enhance collaboration.
• Build a basic understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs with guidance.

Problem Solving

• Identify and address issues, escalating problems to senior staff as needed in accordance with standard procedures.
• Compile and review data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors.

Continuous Learning

• Seek opportunities to gain knowledge and learn new skills and/or tools aligned with industry trends and best practices.
• Utilize feedback and training to improve skills.
• Participate in a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.

Continuous Improvement

• Implement updates to processes, protocols, and workflows to increase efficiency and effectiveness as directed, with some guidance.
• Contribute to ideation for future process improvements.

Qualifications

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.

• 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.

Career Level - IC2

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