Lead Distributed Systems Engineer – Cloud Storage

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 141,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Short term disability

Long term disability

Life insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Equity/Stock options

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a senior software engineer to help shape the next generation of control-plane storage for large-scale, globally distributed cloud services in Nashville, TN. You will own designs for reliable, strongly consistent systems and drive critical initiatives that affect OCI’s core platform.

Applicants should have deep expertise in distributed systems, databases, and scalable storage infrastructure, with a passion for operational excellence and mentoring

Qualifications

• Hands-on, senior technical leader with deep expertise in distributed systems.
• Experience designing and operating scalable, highly available cloud services.
• Mentor engineers and drive large technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of foundational cloud infrastructure services that manage critical control-plane metadata and state for large-scale OCI services.
• Architect and build highly available, strongly consistent, low-latency distributed systems with a focus on correctness, durability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Drive major technical initiatives across the full lifecycle, from architecture and implementation to safe rollout, production operations, and continuous improvement.
• Improve service scalability, performance, and predictability through better data-plane architecture, transaction processing, caching, throttling, capacity planning, and failure recovery.
• Build and operate resilient multi-tenant systems with strong observability, automation, alarms, dashboards, deployment safety, and incident prevention mechanisms.
• Mentor engineers, raise the engineering bar through design and code reviews, and establish best practices for distributed systems, production readiness, and operational excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Databases

Storage infrastructure

Transaction processing

Highly available systems

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a senior software engineer to help shape the next generation of control-plane storage for large-scale, globally distributed cloud services in Nashville, TN. You will own designs for reliable, strongly consistent systems and drive critical initiatives that affect OCI’s core platform.

Applicants should have deep expertise in distributed systems, databases, and scalable storage infrastructure, with a passion for operational excellence and mentoring