Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Self-Healing Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave and life insurance

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff to help build Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI) for OCI, covering compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance in a greenfield environment.

You will design scalable, resilient runtimes and platforms, implement automation and IaC, and contribute to incident response and security controls while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–5+ years of software engineering experience building reliable services, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in at least one systems or backend language, such as Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed‑systems fundamentals.
• Experience or strong interest in cloud infrastructure, virtualization, Linux systems, containers, storage, networking, security, schedulers, control planes, or management planes.
• Ability to design, build, test, and debug reliable software in a large, evolving codebase.
• Strong communication skills, collaboration skills, and an ownership‑oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Delivers features and load/performance tests; leverages data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high‑volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and reviews peers’ implementations for scalability compliance.
• Builds fault‑tolerant paths (redundancy, replication, automatic failover), applies recovery‑oriented principles, and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Proactively detects and mitigates issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks and participates in incident response and RCAs.
• Implements standard replication and synchronization, develops automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies advanced security controls while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.
• Key responsibilities span System Design & Architecture, System Reliability Design and Performance, Correctness/Availability, and Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management.
• Discussions on security, compliance, automation, and change management to maintain robust cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Java

Go

Rust

C/C++

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Operating systems

Networking

Concurrency

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff to help build Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI) for OCI, covering compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance in a greenfield environment.

You will design scalable, resilient runtimes and platforms, implement automation and IaC, and contribute to incident response and security controls while collaborating across teams.