Senior Engineer, Autonomous Cloud Infrastructure

Socket.dev; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible medical

Life insurance

Retirement options

Volunteer programs

Accessibility accommodations

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff in Nashville to help build lightweight infrastructure and a next-generation runtime for compute, storage, and networking. You will design, implement, and test scalable services, contributing to a greenfield cloud platform with strong emphasis on reliability and security.

You will collaborate across teams to ensure operability, performance, and governance, while driving automation, IaC, and incident response in a fast-moving environment.

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 (Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, Python).
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, OS, networking, concurrency, and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Experience or strong interest in cloud infrastructure, virtualization, Linux systems, containers, storage, networking, security, schedulers, or control planes.
• Ability to design, build, test, and debug reliable software in a large, evolving codebase.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Deliver features and load/performance tests; leverage data plane platforms and distributed state tools.
• Review peers’ implementations for scalability compliance; build fault-tolerant paths and retries.
• Proactively detect and mitigate issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; write runbooks and participate in incident response.

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff in Nashville to help build lightweight infrastructure and a next-generation runtime for compute, storage, and networking. You will design, implement, and test scalable services, contributing to a greenfield cloud platform with strong emphasis on reliability and security.

You will collaborate across teams to ensure operability, performance, and governance, while driving automation, IaC, and incident response in a fast-moving environment.