Senior Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville seeks a Senior Member of Technical Staff to help build Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI), the next-generation runtime and platform layer for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance within Autonomous OCI.

The role requires 3–5+ years in software engineering, strong backend skills (Java/Go/Rust/Python/C/C++), and a solid foundation in distributed systems, OS, and networking.

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); Rust is a strong plus for compute and systems roles.
• 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, control planes, or management planes.
• Ability to design, build, test, and debug reliable software in a large evolving codebase.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with an ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Delivers features and load/performance tests; uses data plane platforms and distributed state tools.
• Builds fault-tolerant paths with redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
• Applies recovery-oriented computing; implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Proactively detects and mitigates issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; writes runbooks and participates in incident response and RCAs.
• Implements standard replication and synchronization; develops automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance; applies advanced security controls with compliance and documentation in mind.

Skills

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Communication & ownership

Education

BS/MS in computer science

Job description

Within OCI, the Technical Strategy & Oversight organization builds foundational systems for OCI’s most demanding services. One of its boldest initiatives is Autonomous OCI: a greenfield effort to build a cloud platform that can operate and scale with far less manual work.

Today, every new region and service feature adds operational cost and complexity. Autonomous OCI is designed to change that by making services fast, resilient, and self-healing by default—helping OCI scale to thousands of regions without growing operations teams at the same rate.

As a Senior Member of Technical Staff, you will help build Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI), the next-generation runtime and platform layer for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance.

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.

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.

Internal Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:

• –Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
• –Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
• –Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
• –Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• –Implements performance and load testing.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:

• –Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• –Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
• –Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:

• –Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
• –Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
• –Builds and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.

System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:

• –Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
• –Implements tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
• –Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• –Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
• –Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• –Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
• –Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security:

• –Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
• –Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
• –Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date

Automation & Change Management:

• –Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
• –Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• –Track timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements.
• –Prioritize and adjust work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance

Collaboration & Partnership:

• –Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving:

• –Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices

Continuous Learning:

• –Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools, and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members..

Continuous Improvement:

• –Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

External Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:

• –Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
• –Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
• –Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
• –Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• –Implements performance and load testing.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:

• –Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• –Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
• –Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:

• –Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
• –Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
• –Builds and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.

System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:

• –Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
• –Implements tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
• –Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• –Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
• –Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• –Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
• –Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security:

• –Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
• –Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
• –Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date

Automation & Change Management:

• –Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
• –Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• –Track timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements.
• –Prioritize and adjust work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance

Collaboration & Partnership:

• –Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving:

• –Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices

Continuous Learning:

• –Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools, and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members..

Continuous Improvement:

• –Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.