Oracle

Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure - Nashville

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Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of core distributed systems and data-plane services at hyperscale.
  • Define scalability, elasticity, durability, availability, and operational-readiness requirements for owned components.
  • Optimize high-throughput data paths for retrieval, storage, and processing using distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns.
  • Design fault-tolerant systems with redundancy, automatic failover, in-service updates, and recovery-oriented architecture.
  • Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and proactive alerting for critical systems.
  • Lead performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing to validate correctness and resilience.
  • Diagnose and recover from production incidents, guide root-cause analysis, and mentor engineers.
  • Build Infrastructure as Code and operational automation for safe patching, updates, rollbacks, and change management.
  • Apply security controls and remediation practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance readiness, for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of professional software-engineering experience with demonstrated impact on large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
  • Deep understanding of distributed-systems design, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software development.
  • Experience with system-level test automation, performance and load testing, reliability engineering, and production incident response.
  • Experience leading or influencing technical architecture and mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred experience with Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, replication, state management, high-throughput data processing, observability systems, 24x7 production operations, Infrastructure as Code, service automation, security controls, and compliance requirements.

Benefits

  • Office-based role requiring onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Relocation assistance may be available under Oracle’s relocation policies.
  • Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, 401(k) match, paid time off, paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, group legal services, and voluntary insurance benefits.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureC#C++GoGoogle CloudJavaOracle Cloud

Categories

Oracle

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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