Software Developer 3

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking an experienced distributed systems engineer to design, implement, and optimize scalable components with resiliency and operability at scale.

You will build fault-tolerant paths, implement automated failover, and contribute to incident response and runbooks, while applying IaC and security controls across production environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge and interest in AI adoption including prompt engineering and agentic programming, with ChatGPT and Codex experience a plus.
• Strong knowledge of Java, with a preference for Scala and functional programming concepts.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Builds fault-tolerant paths (replication, automatic failover) and applies recovery-oriented principles.
• Proactively detects issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks and participates in incident response.
• Implements IaC and advanced security controls while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Scala

Prompt engineering

ChatGPT Codex

Data structures

Algorithms

Operating systems

Networking

TCP/IP

Distributed persistence

Performance tuning

Multi-tenant infra

Tools

Terraform

Job description

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

Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge and interest in AI adoption including prompt engineering and agentic programming, with ChatGPT and Codex experience a plus.
• Strong knowledge of a base language such as Java, with a preference for functional programming language such as Scala.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience with tools such as Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Deep knowledge with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and network architectures.
• Ability to design, troubleshoot and maintain networking infrastructure for high throughput use cases.
• Strong understanding of databases, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus.

External Responsibilities

Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge and interest in AI adoption including prompt engineering and agentic programming, with ChatGPT and Codex experience a plus.
• Strong knowledge of a base language such as Java, with a preference for functional programming language such as Scala.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience with tools such as Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Deep knowledge with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and network architectures.
• Ability to design, troubleshoot and maintain networking infrastructure for high throughput use cases.
• Strong understanding of databases, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus.