Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Virtualbox; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation seeks a senior software architect to lead development and architect components of scalable, elastic distributed systems. You will define scalability requirements, optimize data paths for high-throughput workloads, and design fault-tolerant services with redundancy and failover.

You will establish KPIs and telemetry, build proactive dashboards and alerts, implement secure IaC and automation for safe patching and rollbacks, and mentor peers while ensuring operational readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of fault-tolerant architectures and redundancy.
• Proficiency in telemetry, monitoring, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and architect components of scalable distributed systems.
• Define scalability requirements and optimize data paths for high-throughput workloads.
• Mentor peers and ensure operational readiness, security, and compliance in production.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Fault-tolerant architectures

Telemetry & monitoring

Job description

Leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems. Defines and enforces scalability requirements for owned components; optimizes code and data paths for high‑throughput, hyper‑scale workloads; and leverages data plane platforms for large‑scale retrieval, storage, and processing. Designs fault‑tolerant, in‑service‑upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions, applying load‑shedding, throttling, and rate‑limiting to handle network unreliability while meeting SLOs.

Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; and designs complex validation (fault injection, brownouts), replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability. Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness. Implements robust security controls, executes remediation, maintains compliance documentation, and develops IaC and automation that enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks within change‑management plans.