Senior DNS Control-Plane Engineer

Oracle; Utah; On-site; USD 79,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and company match

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking an experienced software engineer to design and operate DNS control-plane services and APIs. You will build production-grade distributed systems in Java with Python automation, focusing on API design, scalability, and reliability.

You will collaborate with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to code reviews, testing, and operational readiness, including observability and on-call practices.

Qualifications

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience shipping production services.
• 4 years building production-grade distributed systems, cloud services, and/or control-plane platforms.
• Strong proficiency in Java, including production service development, concurrent programming, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to improve design, code generation, testing, troubleshooting, and automation while maintaining engineering judgment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones and routing.
• Build reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, and lifecycle management across distributed DNS infrastructure.
• Develop production services in Java with automation in Python.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate implementation, testing, and incident response with proper human oversight.
• Own observability and operational readiness: metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call participation.
• Partner with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams to deliver secure end-to-end platform improvements.
• Contribute technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and mentoring of other engineers.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

API design

OpenAPI/Swagger

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

AI-assisted development

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking an experienced software engineer to design and operate DNS control-plane services and APIs. You will build production-grade distributed systems in Java with Python automation, focusing on API design, scalability, and reliability.

You will collaborate with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to code reviews, testing, and operational readiness, including observability and on-call practices.