Senior Distributed Systems & Reliability Engineer

Oracle; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Career growth

Job summary

Oracle in Austin, TX seeks a senior engineer to architect scalable distributed systems, optimize high-throughput pipelines, and design fault-tolerant services with automation and IaC. You will lead design, reliability, security controls, and incident response, mentoring peers and ensuring compliance; the role emphasizes performance, telemetry, and change management within a large cloud environment.

This position offers competitive benefits and a pathway to influence critical infrastructure at

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in security engineering, application development, or related field.
• 6 years of experience with systems/application development.
• Experience with distributed systems, security, and networking concepts.
• Proficiency in building automated cloud solutions and IaC.
• Strong focus on reliability, performance, and security in multi-tenant environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of scalable distributed systems.
• Define scalability, reliability, and performance requirements.
• Develop dashboards, telemetry, and alerting for system health.
• Implement security controls and remediation plans across cloud infra.
• Mentor team members and participate in incident response and postmortems.
• Champion change management and automation for patches and rollbacks.

Skills

Security engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Automation / IaC

System architecture

High-availability

Incident management

Telemetry / dashboards

Security controls

Compliance awareness

Job description

Oracle in Austin, TX seeks a senior engineer to architect scalable distributed systems, optimize high-throughput pipelines, and design fault-tolerant services with automation and IaC. You will lead design, reliability, security controls, and incident response, mentoring peers and ensuring compliance; the role emphasizes performance, telemetry, and change management within a large cloud environment.

This position offers competitive benefits and a pathway to influence critical infrastructure at