Oracle

Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle
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5 days ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development, and implementation of control-plane services for a globally distributed networking infrastructure fleet.
  • Build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems with replication, failover, consistency controls, load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting.
  • Define and validate scalability, performance, availability, durability, correctness, and service-level requirements.
  • Develop performance, load, fault-injection, brownout, and resilience tests.
  • Build metrics, telemetry, dashboards, monitoring, and alerts for system health and performance.
  • Diagnose and resolve production issues, participate in operational support rotations, guide incident response, and conduct root-cause and preventive-action work.
  • Implement security controls, encryption, access management, compliance requirements, and remediation of security gaps.
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code and automation for infrastructure management, deployments, patching, rollback, recovery, and operational workflows.
  • Own moderately complex projects, coordinate contributors and dependencies, and provide technical oversight.
  • Collaborate across teams, translate stakeholder and customer needs into technical solutions, document decisions, and improve engineering and operational practices.
  • Mentor junior engineers, share knowledge, participate in interviews, and provide hiring recommendations.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of experience in systems or application development.
  • 5+ years of experience in distributed systems or network programming.
  • Proficiency in at least two of Java, C, C++, Python, Scala, or Go.
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, BGP, TCP/IP, and networking fundamentals.
  • Experience designing and operating production architectures, scalable systems, cloud computing patterns, and large-scale infrastructure, cloud-platform, or web-service software.
  • Experience with change management, continuous integration, and deployment best practices.
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Chef, or Ansible and working knowledge of Linux.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex interconnected systems, navigate ambiguity, prioritize competing needs, and manage escalations.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related engineering field.
  • Ability to lead technical decisions, coordinate cross-team work, mentor engineers, and participate in hiring.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
  • Short- and long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental life insurance.
  • Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
  • Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
  • 401(k) plan with company match and employee stock purchase plan.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
  • Financial planning, group legal benefits, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
  • US-based employees complete identity verification involving biometric information, with accommodations potentially available following individualized assessment.

Tech Stack

AnsibleCC++ChefGoJavaLinuxOracle CloudPythonScalaTerraform

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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