Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer - Scale & Reliability

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 79,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a skilled System Design & Architecture engineer to design, implement, and optimize components of distributed systems focused on scalability, resiliency, and operability. The role emphasizes fault-tolerant paths, replication, and automated recovery in large-scale environments.

You will work across design, reliability, performance, and security domains, building automation, runbooks, and telemetry to ensure resilient cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant engineering, architecture, or development/operational experience.
• Strong experience working on data plane architectures in networking devices.
• Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
• Experience designing, developing and optimizing high performance network solutions using DPDK, C/C++
• Working experience with Linux OSes/kernels, device drivers, performance testing tools, distributed debugging tools
• Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
• Comfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environments.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes.
• Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments.

Responsibilities

• Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

High-concurrency systems

Distributed systems

C/C++

DPDK

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Linux kernel

Device drivers

Performance testing tools

Distributed debugging tools

Job description

Oracle in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a skilled System Design & Architecture engineer to design, implement, and optimize components of distributed systems focused on scalability, resiliency, and operability. The role emphasizes fault-tolerant paths, replication, and automated recovery in large-scale environments.

You will work across design, reliability, performance, and security domains, building automation, runbooks, and telemetry to ensure resilient cloud infrastructure.