Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 79,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

OracleCloud Infrastructure is seeking an experienced software engineer to design and implement control-plane services for DNS zones, records and routing. You will build reliable distributed systems in Java with Python automation, emphasizing API correctness and security.

You will drive observability, performance tuning, and secure rollout practices while mentoring peers and collaborating with SRE and security teams. This is a high-impact, IC3-level role in the US.

Qualifications

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience shipping production services.
• 4 years building distributed systems or cloud control-plane platforms.
• Strong Java production service development and concurrency troubleshooting.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows.
• Strong REST/OpenAPI API design skills and contractual interfaces.
• Experience with Linux networking and highly available distributed systems.
• Container experience with Docker/Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Solid testing discipline across unit/integration/e2e tests.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement DNS control-plane services and APIs.
• Build workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation and lifecycle management.
• Develop production services and libraries in Java; automate with Python where needed.
• Apply AI-assisted tooling to accelerate design, testing, and automation with safeguards.
• Improve safety and resilience with idempotent workflows, audits, and canary releases.
• Own observability: metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call readiness.
• Collaborate with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams.
• Contribute through design/code reviews and mentoring.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

API design

OpenAPI/Swagger

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible/Chef

CI/CD

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

OCI DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Bitbucket

Job description

Job Description

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for enterprises. We combine the pace and ownership of a start-up with the scale, reliability, and customer focus required to run one of the world’s leading enterprise cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, views, policies, andandrouting configuration.
• Build reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, andlifecycle management across distributed DNS infrastructure.
• Develop production services and libraries primarily in Java, with supporting automation in Python where needed, and a strong focus on API design and correctness.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate implementation, testing,incident investigation, and operational automation, with appropriate human review, security, andquality controls.
• Improve safety and operational resilience through idempotent workflows, optimistic concurrency,auditability, rollback paths, canary releases, and feature flags.
• Own observability and operational readiness: metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, runbooks, capacityplanning, and thoughtful on-call participation.
• Partner with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams to deliver secure, end-to-endplatform improvements.
• Contribute technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, andmentoring of other engineers.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and operating resilient production services.
• 4 years of hands-on experience building production-grade distributed systems, cloud services, and/or control-plane platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Java, including production service development, concurrent programming, and performance troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to improve design, code generation, testing, troubleshooting, and process automation while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
• Strong API design skills, including RESTful service design and OpenAPI/Swagger or comparable API contracts.
• Experience designing reliable stateful workflows, including asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, concurrency control, and failure recovery.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and highly available distributedsystems.
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration automation, especially Terraform and tools such as Ansible or Chef.
• Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, with a commitment to secure and safe rollout practices.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• DNS expertise, including authoritative DNS, zone and record management, DNS delegation, TTLs, DNSSEC, and DNS change propagation.
• Experience with cloud control planes, resource lifecycle management, or multi-tenant platform APIs.
• Knowledge of internet protocols and security standards, including DNS, TLS, HTTP, and REST.
• Experience with relational or distributed data stores and schema evolution for highly available services.
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD platforms such as OCI DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD, and engineering productivity tools including Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.
• Experience operating mission-critical services in a 24/7 environment.

What Success Looks Like

• You deliver control-plane capabilities that make DNS changes safer, faster, and easier for customers and internal operators.
• You improve the reliability, auditability, and operability of DNS configuration workflows at scale.
• You raise engineering standards through pragmatic design, rigorous testing, and collaborative technical leadership.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $79,200 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

Career Level – IC3

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