Senior Engineer, Autonomous Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Corporation; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation's OCI team is building Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI) for a scalable compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance platform. The Senior Member of Technical Staff will shape a greenfield Autonomous OCI project designed to reduce manual work across regions and services.

You will design, implement, and optimize distributed components, drive reliability, and contribute to incident response, runbooks, and security controls in a large evolving codebase.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3-5+ years of software engineering experience building reliable services, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in at least one systems or backend language, such as Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python. Rust experience is a strong plus for compute and systems-oriented roles.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Experience or strong interest in cloud infrastructure, virtualization, Linux systems, containers, storage, networking, security, schedulers, control planes, or management planes.
• Ability to design, build, test, and debug reliable software in a large, evolving codebase.
• Strong communication skills, collaboration skills, and an ownership-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Delivers features and load/performance tests; leverages data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and reviews peers' implementations for scalability compliance.
• Builds fault-tolerant paths (redundancy, replication, automatic failover), applies recovery-oriented principles, and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Proactively detects and mitigates issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks and participates in incident response and RCAs.
• Implements standard replication and synchronization, develops automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation) while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.

Skills

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Linux systems

Networking fundamentals

Communication & collaboration

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Go

Rust

C/C++

Python

Job description

Oracle Corporation's OCI team is building Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI) for a scalable compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance platform. The Senior Member of Technical Staff will shape a greenfield Autonomous OCI project designed to reduce manual work across regions and services.

You will design, implement, and optimize distributed components, drive reliability, and contribute to incident response, runbooks, and security controls in a large evolving codebase.