Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Short/Long-term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle in the United States is seeking a Core Infrastructure Software Engineer to design, develop, and operate highly available, scalable microservices across the control plane and data plane while improving reliability and efficiency. You will automate workflows, explore AI-assisted approaches, and contribute across the product lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, quick learning, and solving complex HA and scalability problems in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience with systems or application development.
• 3 years of experience with distributed systems or backend development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• Proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
• Experience with distributed systems, including familiarity with CAP theorem, consensus, messaging, and high availability.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn and responsibly apply AI/LLM tools, skills, and automation to improve engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices across control plane, connectivity, distributed-systems data plane, and Linux daemon technologies.
• Contribute throughout the product lifecycle, from conceptualization and product definition through design, development, launch, and operational maturity.
• Identify opportunities to automate engineering workflows across development, testing, troubleshooting, operations, and documentation, leveraging AI-assisted and agentic approaches where appropriate.
• Measure and improve reliability, delivery velocity, operational efficiency, customer outcomes, and engineering productivity, while sharing effective practices across the team.
• Be hands-on, adaptable, and self-motivated; learn quickly, apply new tools thoughtfully, and tackle high-availability challenges.

Skills

Systems development

Distributed systems

Backend development

Data structures

Algorithms

Operating systems

AI/LLM tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Linux

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Job description

Oracle in the United States is seeking a Core Infrastructure Software Engineer to design, develop, and operate highly available, scalable microservices across the control plane and data plane while improving reliability and efficiency. You will automate workflows, explore AI-assisted approaches, and contribute across the product lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, quick learning, and solving complex HA and scalability problems in a distributed environment.