Principal Data Center Telemetry & Automation Engineer

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

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