Senior Systems Engineer, Cloud Infra & Autonomous Platform

Ll Oefentherapie; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff to help build Lightweight Infrastructure for a greenfield cloud platform. You will contribute to runtime and platform layers across compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance in a high-scale environment.

Responsibilities include designing and implementing scalable distributed systems, driving reliability through fault-tolerant patterns, and advancing security and automation with IaC while

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.

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; 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.

Skills

Java

Go

Rust

C/C++

Python

Distributed systems

Networking

Operating systems

Concurrency

Data structures

Algorithms

Cloud infra

Linux

Containers

Security

Ownership mindset

Collaboration

Communication

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Member of Technical Staff to help build Lightweight Infrastructure for a greenfield cloud platform. You will contribute to runtime and platform layers across compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance in a high-scale environment.

Responsibilities include designing and implementing scalable distributed systems, driving reliability through fault-tolerant patterns, and advancing security and automation with IaC while