Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Core Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN, seeks a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and evolution of foundational distributed systems behind OCI. You will build scalable, fault-tolerant services for high-volume data retrieval, storage and processing, and set the technical direction for reliability, security, and operational readiness.

This office-based role requires onsite presence in Nashville; relocation support may be available.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software-engineering experience with impact on large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Proficiency in one or more OO or systems programming languages (Java, C++, C#, Go).
• Deep understanding of distributed-systems design, data structures, algorithms, OS, networking, and secure software practices.
• Experience with system-level test automation, performance/load testing, reliability engineering, and production incident response.
• Demonstrated experience leading or influencing technical architecture and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing evolution of core distributed systems and data-plane services at hyperscale.
• Define scalability, elasticity, durability, and availability requirements for owned components and ensure designs meet them.
• Optimize high-throughput data paths for large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing using distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns.
• Design fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates through redundancy, automated failover, and recovery-oriented design.
• Apply sound distributed-systems tradeoffs for network partitions and reliability, including load shedding, throttling, retries, and timeouts.
• Establish service-level objectives, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and proactive alerting for critical systems.
• Design and lead performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing to validate reliability and operational readiness.
• Lead production incident diagnosis and root-cause analysis, mentoring engineers in operational excellence.
• Build and improve Infrastructure as Code and operational automation for safe patching, updates, rollbacks, and change management.
• Apply robust security controls and remediation practices for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Software engineering

Leadership

Java/C++/C#/Go

Security practices

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN, seeks a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and evolution of foundational distributed systems behind OCI. You will build scalable, fault-tolerant services for high-volume data retrieval, storage and processing, and set the technical direction for reliability, security, and operational readiness.

This office-based role requires onsite presence in Nashville; relocation support may be available.