Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN is seeking a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and development of backend services, APIs, and workflow automation for OCI planning and capacity management. You will architect scalable, elastic distributed systems and enforce high scalability requirements while ensuring reliability and security.

You will mentor peers, drive operational readiness, and contribute to automation, patching, and rollback strategies within change-management

Qualifications

• Experience architecting scalable distributed systems.
• Strong backend service design and API development background.
• Familiarity with infrastructure planning and capacity management.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and workflow automation solutions that support infrastructure planning and capacity management.
• Own technical designs and service implementations; contribute to architectural decisions.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable production systems.
• Work on both new capabilities and enhancements to existing systems; improve architecture, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend services

APIs

IaC and automation

Job description

Location: Nashville, TN — onsite 5 days/week. Relocation assistance is available; this is not a remote position.

Job Summary

Leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems. Defines and enforces scalability requirements for owned components; optimizes code and data paths for high‑throughput, hyper‑scale workloads; and leverages data plane platforms for large‑scale retrieval, storage, and processing. Designs fault‑tolerant, in‑service‑upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions, applying load‑shedding, throttling, and rate‑limiting to handle network unreliability while meeting SLOs. Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; and designs complex validation (fault injection, brownouts), replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability. Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness. Implements robust security controls, executes remediation, maintains compliance documentation, and develops IaC and automation that enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks within change‑management plans.

About the Team & Organization

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a motivated Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to join the OCI Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization.

The OCI Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management team builds software solutions that improve how OCI manages infrastructure capacity, sources resources, and plans for future demand. Our work spans planning and forecasting services, infrastructure sourcing workflows, process automation, data integration, and operational reporting. We focus on improving decision quality, increasing operational visibility, and reducing manual effort across engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance.

In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and workflow automation solutions that support critical infrastructure planning and capacity management processes. You will own technical designs and service implementations, contribute to architectural decisions, and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable production systems.

You will work on both new capabilities and enhancements to existing systems, applying strong software engineering fundamentals and modern development practices to solve complex technical and operational challenges. You will also help improve system architecture, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency across infrastructure planning and capacity management solutions.