Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, Data Center Telemetry & Automation

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off & holidays

401(k) matching

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure seeks a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and delivery of distributed services for data-center telemetry, device management, and hardware lifecycle automation. You will work onsite in Nashville, TN, and guide architecture, API design, and secure workflows while contributing production code.

With 6+ years in distributed systems, you will mentor engineers, set reliability goals, and collaborate across hardware, security, and operations to scale

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on development skills in Java or Python.
• Experience designing scalable, highly available services and APIs.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, distributed state, asynchronous processing, failure recovery, and data consistency.
• Knowledge of Linux, networking, secure service communication, and authentication.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives from requirements through implementation and production delivery.
• Strong cross-team communication and mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and implementation for telemetry ingestion, processing, storage, and integration with monitoring platforms.
• Define service boundaries, APIs, data models, and integration patterns across heterogeneous infrastructure devices.
• Design secure workflows for device onboarding, configuration, certificate lifecycle management, health assessment, and automated repair.
• Establish approaches for distributed state management, retries, idempotency, backpressure, fault isolation, and recovery.
• Define service reliability and performance goals; build observability, validation, and deployment safeguards needed to meet them.
• Lead complex production investigations and drive lasting improvements to service resilience and operational efficiency.
• Partner with hardware, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to resolve dependencies and deliver capabilities across data-center deployments.
• Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and improve engineering standards while contributing production code.

Skills

Distributed systems ownership

Java

Python

Concurrency

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

ILOM

Redfish

gNMI

MQTT

PKI

TLS

React

TypeScript

Job description

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds GPU platforms for demanding AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads. The Raw Metal Cloud (RMC) team develops the software that manages infrastructure from hardware onboarding and inventory through provisioning, validation, rack certification, and customer handoff. We are seeking a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and delivery of distributed services for data‑center telemetry, device management, and hardware lifecycle automation. You will define how these services collect and interpret infrastructure signals, securely manage devices, and coordinate reliable remediation across a growing fleet. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You will turn ambiguous requirements into practical architectures, lead initiatives spanning multiple services and teams, and remain directly involved in implementation and production operations. Your work will improve infrastructure readiness, reduce operational effort, and increase the predictability of GPU capacity delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and implementation for telemetry ingestion, processing, storage, and integration with monitoring platforms.
• Define service boundaries, APIs, data models, and integration patterns across heterogeneous infrastructure devices.
• Design secure workflows for device onboarding, configuration, certificate lifecycle management, health assessment, and automated repair.
• Establish approaches for distributed state management, retries, idempotency, backpressure, fault isolation, and recovery.
• Define service reliability and performance goals; build the observability, validation, and deployment safeguards needed to meet them.
• Lead complex production investigations and drive lasting improvements to service resilience and operational efficiency.
• Partner with hardware, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to resolve dependencies and deliver capabilities across data‑center deployments.
• Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and improve engineering standards while contributing production code.

Required qualifications

• Must be able & willing to work onsite in Nashville, TN. Relocation assistance available.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production distributed systems.
• Strong hands‑on development skills in Java, Python, or a comparable backend language.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating scalable, highly available services and APIs.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, distributed state, asynchronous processing, failure recovery, and data consistency.
• Experience designing data models and selecting storage approaches based on throughput, latency, retention, and reliability requirements.
• Practical knowledge of Linux, networking, secure service communication, and authentication.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation and production delivery.
• Strong technical judgment, cross‑team communication, and experience mentoring engineers.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing telemetry or observability platforms for large infrastructure fleets.
• Familiarity with time‑series systems, event‑driven architectures, and high‑volume device data processing.
• Experience with ILOM, Redfish, gNMI, MQTT, or comparable hardware management technologies.
• Experience designing PKI, mutual TLS, and automated certificate provisioning and rotation.
• Knowledge of data‑center power, thermal, and cooling infrastructure or GPU hardware lifecycle management.
• Experience building safe automated remediation, workflow orchestration, and device management systems.
• Experience with OCI or another cloud platform and operational tools built with React and TypeScript.

Qualifications Disclaimer

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: $114,600 - $234,600 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.

Benefits

• 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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