Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer- Nashville, TN

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle's Nashville-based team seeks a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to drive the design of scalable networked services for AI workloads. You will lead the development of a distributed system stack and mentor engineers across the organization.

The role emphasizes high availability, low latency, and secure cloud infrastructure, with collaboration across product and engineering teams in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field with coding experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience across distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or C# and OO design patterns.
• Experience with infrastructure like service discovery, containers, and SDN.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Own software design and development for major components of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Lead a team building scalable, high-performance network services.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to deliver reliable, secure solutions.
• Define architecture decisions and promote simplicity and scalability.

Skills

Distributed systems

High-scale services

CS fundamentals

Java

GoLang

C#

Team collaboration

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Service discovery

Secret storage

Containerization

Software-defined networking

Job description

Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer- Nashville, TN

Hot Job

• Job Identification 342904
• Job Category Product and Research
• Posting Date 08/26/2026, 11:11 PM
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 3 to 5+ years
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Job Description

As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer within the Networking organization, you will spearhead the development of innovative services in the Networking Automation & Health domain to enable AI super clusters. This initiative involves building a robust software stack from the ground up to monitor and manage network infrastructure, automatically resolve network issues, and ensure high bandwidth with low-latency connections essential for AI workloads. You will assemble and lead a team that combines software engineering excellence with network control expertise, collaborating with senior technical leaders to design and deliver solutions to complex and impactful challenges.

This is an exciting and transformative time for us. We are rapidly growing, still in the early stages, and driving ambitious initiatives such as network control plane development, network health monitoring, and auto-recovery services. We are seeking an experienced engineer with a deep understanding of systems design and distributed systems to build scalable, high-performance solutions.

This role is located in Nashville, TN

Responsibilities

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for engineers with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You’ve operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You work on most projects and tasks independently. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances, but have to abide by compliance and regulations.

The ideal candidate will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

What are the biggest challenges for the team?

The team is building a brand new service. The dynamic and fast growth of the business is driving us to build brand new innovative technologies.We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution.

We need engineers who can build services that can reliably protect our customer cloud environment. We need engineers who can figure out how we can keep up our solution in a fast pace to securely protect our customers. We need engineers who can build services that enable us to offer even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Cloud.

Required Qualifications

BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience

8+ years of total experience in software development

Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment

Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms)

Proficient in Java, GoLang, C#, or similar OO languages

You are experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols

Experience with components of modern infrastructure like service discovery, secret storage, containerization, software-defined networking, etc.

Experience with production