Senior Systems Engineer, Autonomous Cloud 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

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.