Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer (Nashville-TN)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Volunteer programs

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville, TN is seeking an experienced software engineer to design and operate distributed cloud-native services. You will contribute to scalable architectures and reliability, working onsite five days a week.

The role emphasizes scalability, fault tolerance, and high-performance data processing in a multi-tenant cloud environment. You should have deep experience with Java, Go, or Python, and hands-on cloud experience across OCI/AWS/Azure/GCP.

Qualifications

• Strong programming experience in Java, Go, Python or similar modern languages.
• Experience developing and operating services on public cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, scalability, fault tolerance, and service-oriented architectures.
• Hands-on experience building and operating highly available cloud-native services in production environments.
• Strong understanding of REST API design and multi-tenant service architectures.
• Experience with databases, NoSQL systems, storage technologies, and distributed persistence systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable components for distributed services.
• Collaborate with OCI teams to support rapid cloud growth and reliability.
• Build and maintain monitoring, dashboards, and alerting for system health.
• Ensure fault-tolerance with redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Tools

OCI

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Job Description

Location

Nashville, TN — onsite 5 days/week. Relocation assistance is available; this is not a remote position.

The OCI Limits Team owns the foundational platform that manages service limits, quotas, and capacity governance across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The team enables customers and internal OCI services to scale reliably and securely by providing automated limit management, quota enforcement, and high-scale control plane integrations. We work closely with service teams across OCI to support rapid cloud growth, operational stability, and enterprise-grade resource governance. The organization operates highly distributed, mission-critical systems that directly impact customer onboarding, expansion, and cloud consumption experiences.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:

• –Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
• –Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
• –Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
• –Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• –Implements performance and load testing.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:

• –Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• –Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
• –Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:

• –Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
• –Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
• –Builds and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.

System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:

• –Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
• –Implements tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
• –Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• –Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
• –Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• –Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
• –Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security:

• –Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
• –Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
• –Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date

Automation & Change Management:

• –Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
• –Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong programming experience in Java, Go, Python or similar modern programming languages.
• Experience developing and operating services on public cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, scalability, fault tolerance, and service-oriented architectures.
• Hands-on experience building and operating highly available cloud-native services in production environments.
• Strong understanding of REST API design and multi-tenant service architectures.
• Experience with databases, NoSQL systems, storage technologies, and distributed persistence systems.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, HTTP, and standard cloud network architectures.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning in large-scale systems.

Qualifications

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 - $209,500 per year. 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.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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