Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — Scalable & Reliable

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

Job summary

Oracle in the United States is seeking a senior systems architect to design, implement, and optimize distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and operability. The role delivers features, performs load tests, and reviews peer implementations to ensure scalability and security.

You will build fault-tolerant architectures, apply recovery principles, implement retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts, and develop automation and IaC for maintenance while aligning with change,

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems.
• Ability to optimize for scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Familiarity with load/performance testing and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Designs and contributes to system scalability across components.
• Optimizes code and systems for large-scale data processing.
• Collaborates to build fault-tolerant components with redundancy and failover.
• Implements tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry to monitor health.
• Participates in incident responses and root cause analyses.

Skills

Distributed systems

System design

Scalability

Reliability

Incident management

Tools

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Oracle in the United States is seeking a senior systems architect to design, implement, and optimize distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and operability. The role delivers features, performs load tests, and reviews peer implementations to ensure scalability and security.

You will build fault-tolerant architectures, apply recovery principles, implement retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts, and develop automation and IaC for maintenance while aligning with change,