Oracle

Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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4 hours ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of hyperscale distributed systems and data-plane services.
  • Define and deliver scalability, elasticity, durability, availability, reliability, and operational-readiness requirements.
  • Optimize high-throughput data retrieval, storage, and processing using distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns.
  • Design fault-tolerant systems with redundancy, automatic failover, recovery, load shedding, throttling, rate limiting, retries, and timeouts.
  • Establish service-level objectives, performance indicators, telemetry, dashboards, and proactive alerting.
  • Lead performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing.
  • Lead production incident diagnosis and recovery, root-cause analysis, and operational excellence mentoring.
  • Build Infrastructure as Code and operational automation for patching, updates, rollbacks, and change management.
  • Apply encryption, access controls, security remediation, and compliance practices 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.
  • At least 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, 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 includes Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, replication, state management, high-throughput processing, observability, 24x7 production operations, Infrastructure as Code, service automation, security controls, and cloud compliance.

Benefits

  • Office-based role requiring onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee; relocation assistance may be available under Oracle policies.
  • U.S. base salary range is $114,600 to $234,600 per annum, with possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and supplemental insurance benefits are offered.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match, employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, and group legal benefits are offered.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance are provided.
  • Additional benefits include commuter and parking benefits, flexible spending accounts, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.

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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