Oracle

Principal Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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2 months ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and begin architecting scalable, elastic distributed-system components for horizontal and vertical scaling.
  • Optimize code and systems for hyperscale data processing, high throughput, and large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing.
  • Design fault-tolerant, durable, in-service-upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, consistency policies, load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting.
  • Define scalability requirements, SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, alerts, performance tests, and complex fault-injection or brownout validation scenarios.
  • Implement data replication and synchronization approaches to preserve correctness, integrity, and availability.
  • Diagnose, debug, and resolve production issues; participate in operational support rotations and root-cause investigations.
  • Mentor peers and junior team members, provide technical oversight, participate in candidate interviews, and contribute to talent development.
  • Implement security controls, encryption, access controls, remediation plans, compliance documentation, and cloud-infrastructure safeguards.
  • Develop infrastructure automation and change-management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications and systems.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems with strong performance and correctness requirements.
  • Ability to reason about elasticity, fault tolerance, network partitions, replication, failover, availability, durability, and service-level objectives.
  • Experience with observability, telemetry, dashboards, alerting, performance and load testing, fault injection, and production troubleshooting.
  • Ability to own components from design through production operation and provide technical mentorship and oversight.
  • Experience implementing security controls, remediation, compliance practices, infrastructure automation, and safe change management.
  • Ability to coordinate moderately complex tasks and projects, collaborate across organizations, solve complex technical problems, and contribute to continuous improvement.
  • Willingness to participate in operational support rotations and incident response.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental life insurance.
  • Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
  • 401(k) savings and investment plan with company match.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Financial planning, group legal, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.
  • The role is an individual contributor position at Career Level IC4; applications are generally accepted for at least three calendar days or while the posting remains open.

Tech Stack

Oracle Cloud

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About Oracle

10,000+ employees

Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.

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