Senior Cloud Infra Engineer — Distributed Systems Lead

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 79,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Dental Insurance

401(k) Plan with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer in Nashville to design and operate foundational distributed systems behind OCI. You will develop scalable, secure components for high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing at global scale.

This on-site role emphasizes reliability, observability, IaC, and robust security controls, with relocation support as applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software-development experience; advanced degree holders may have fewer years of experience.
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language (Java, C++, C#, or Go).
• Experience building or operating scalable, highly available distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and optimize components of large-scale distributed systems and data-plane services.
• Build for horizontal and vertical scale using distributed state, replication, synchronization, and high-volume data-processing patterns.
• Strengthen service reliability through redundancy, automatic failover, recovery-oriented design, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Develop and execute performance, load, and fault-injection tests to validate scalability, correctness, availability, and operational readiness.
• Create dashboards, alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and automation that proactively detect issues and accelerate recovery.
• Diagnose production issues, participate in on-call rotations and incident response, and contribute to root-cause analyses and durable corrective actions.
• Develop infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for safe maintenance, troubleshooting, patching, updates, and rollbacks.
• Apply strong security controls—including encryption, access controls, and vulnerability remediation, in multi-tenant environments.

Skills

Java

C++

C#

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Performance testing

Debugging

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer in Nashville to design and operate foundational distributed systems behind OCI. You will develop scalable, secure components for high-volume data retrieval, storage, and processing at global scale.

This on-site role emphasizes reliability, observability, IaC, and robust security controls, with relocation support as applicable.