Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Short- and long-term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Commuter benefits

401(k) with company match

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville seeks a Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to drive scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems for our strategic OCI customers. You will lead end-to-end execution across service teams, influence architectural decisions, and mentor engineers to elevate technical excellence.

The role blends hands-on engineering with strong communication, aligning requirements, improving reliability, and advancing performance across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure engineering, or related disciplines.
• Experience designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems in large-scale production environments.
• Strong programming experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar languages, with hands-on scripting and automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Serve as a technical SME, guiding strategy and standards across OCI service teams.
• Drive end-to-end execution of cross-organizational engineering initiatives with aligned deliverables.
• Identify and resolve scalability, performance, and reliability bottlenecks for high-throughput workloads.
• Evaluate trade-offs in availability, consistency, security, and performance to meet SLOs.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation, tooling, and change management.
• Establish observability strategies, dashboards, KPIs, and alerting to monitor health.

Skills

Java

C++

C#

Scripting

Automation

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

Job Description

As a Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer on Oracle's Strategic Customer Engineering team, you will play a critical role in driving complex technical initiatives across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support our most strategic customers. You will work across multiple service teams and cross-functional organizations to align technical requirements, resolve complex infrastructure challenges, and lead the end-to-end execution of high-impact engineering solutions that improve customer experience, reliability, and scalability. You will serve as a technical subject matter expert, leveraging deep knowledge of cloud technologies, distributed systems, and architectural trade-offs to influence technical decisions and drive solutions across organizational boundaries. The ideal candidate combines strong hands‑on engineering expertise with exceptional communication skills and a demonstrated history of leading large-scale, complex technical initiatives from design through implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable, fault‑tolerant distributed systems supporting strategic customer environments.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert, influencing engineering strategy, architectural decisions, and technical standards across OCI service teams.
• Drive end‑to‑end execution of complex, cross‑organizational engineering initiatives, ensuring technical requirements, dependencies, and deliverables are aligned.
• Identify and resolve system scalability, performance, and reliability bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure for high‑throughput workloads and elastic scaling.
• Evaluate architectural trade‑offs involving availability, consistency, durability, security, and performance to meet service level objectives (SLOs).
• Partner with Compute, Networking, Storage, Identity, and other OCI service teams to address cross‑service dependencies and technical challenges.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation, tooling, and change management solutions that improve scalability, operational efficiency, and system resilience.
• Establish observability strategies, including telemetry, KPIs, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor system health and performance.
• Lead complex technical investigations, incident response, and root cause analysis, driving solutions that prevent recurring issues and minimize customer disruption.
• Drive engineering best practices for system correctness, data integrity, security, compliance, and operational readiness across distributed environments.
• Advise engineering leadership on technical risks and architectural decisions while mentoring engineers and promoting continuous improvement across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Deep technical expertise designing and operating highly scalable, fault‑tolerant distributed systems in large‑scale production environments.
• Strong programming experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar languages, with hands‑on scripting and automation capabilities.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, containerization, and orchestration technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Advanced Linux expertise, including system internals, administration, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and automation across Oracle Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, or similar distributions.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture, including compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and multi‑tenant environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience with system scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, observability, and performance optimization in distributed cloud environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills, including diagnosing complex infrastructure issues, conducting root cause analysis, and improving operational reliability.
• Ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate effectively with senior engineering leaders and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex technical information clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Strong technical documentation skills, including architecture designs, technical specifications, operational procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.

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: $146,300 - $306,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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