Senior Core Networking & Dataplane Engineer

Oracle; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vacation days (Flexible)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer to independently design and deliver major dataplane features in C and C++. You will own features from design to production, troubleshoot complex Linux and networking problems, and contribute to the operation of OCI’s virtual networking infrastructure.

You will work across packet processing, routing, NAT, gateways, and security policy enforcement, aiming for scale, reliability, and observability in a multi-tenant cloud

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering dataplane features in C and C++.
• Strong background in systems programming and production Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement major features in C and C++ for OCI’s high-performance Virtual Networking Dataplane.
• Build packet-processing capabilities for routing, NAT, gateways, and security-policy enforcement.
• Contribute to distributed systems design for scale, availability, and performance.
• Optimize CPU, memory, concurrency, latency, and throughput for large-scale deployments.
• Develop tests (unit, integration, system, fault-injection, scale, performance) to ensure reliability.
• Create fault-tolerant components that handle failures and updates without disruption.
• Improve observability with metrics, alarms, dashboards, telemetry, canaries, health checks.
• Diagnose Linux and networking issues using logs, captures, core dumps, and debugging tools.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response, with root-cause analyses.
• Create runbooks and automation to ease troubleshooting and operations.
• Apply security/isolation principles for multi-tenant cloud environments.
• Support safe change management with validation, staged deployments, monitoring, rollback.
• Maintain automation/infrastructure‑as‑code for building/deploying/operating the service.
• Own features end-to-end from design to support.
• Plan and track work with minimal supervision and manage risks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve shared outcomes.
• Participate in design/code reviews and document decisions.

Skills

C/C++

Systems programming

Linux

Networking

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer to independently design and deliver major dataplane features in C and C++. You will own features from design to production, troubleshoot complex Linux and networking problems, and contribute to the operation of OCI’s virtual networking infrastructure.

You will work across packet processing, routing, NAT, gateways, and security policy enforcement, aiming for scale, reliability, and observability in a multi-tenant cloud