Senior Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff in Seattle to help build Lightweight Infrastructure for a next-generation cloud platform. You will design, implement, and operate distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and self-healing capabilities.

Requirements include a BS/MS in CS or equivalent, 3–5+ years in backend/system software, and strong skills in Java/Go/Rust/Python. Experience with cloud infra, Linux, containers, and CI/CD is highly valued.

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 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.
• Reviews peers’ implementations for scalability compliance and builds fault-tolerant paths like redundancy and failover.
• Implements automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance and applies security controls while ensuring compliance and documentation standards.

Skills

Java, Go, Rust, Python

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Communication & ownership

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Linux

Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)

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.

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