Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure Nashville

Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for leading enterprises worldwide. Our cloud offers hyperscale multi-tenant services deployed across more than 50 regions globally. OCI continues to expand beyond traditional public-cloud boundaries to support dedicated hybrid and multicloud solutions edge computing and more.

As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer you will lead the design and evolution of foundational distributed systems behind OCI. You will build highly scalable elastic and fault-tolerant services for high-volume data retrieval storage and processing and set the technical direction for their reliability correctness security and operational readiness.

This position is office-based and requires onsite presence in Nashville Tennessee. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracles relocation policies.

Responsibilities

What Youll Do

• Lead the design implementation and ongoing evolution of core distributed systems and data-plane services at hyperscale.
• Define scalability elasticity durability and availability requirements for owned components and ensure designs meet them.
• Optimize high-throughput data paths for large-scale retrieval storage and processing using distributed state replication and synchronization patterns.
• Design fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates through redundancy automatic failover and recovery-oriented design.
• Apply sound distributed-systems tradeoffs for network partitions and reliability including load shedding throttling rate limiting retries and timeouts.
• Establish service-level objectives key performance indicators telemetry dashboards and proactive alerting for critical systems.
• Design and lead performance load fault-injection and brownout testing to validate correctness resilience and operational readiness.
• Lead production incident diagnosis and recovery guide root-cause analysis and mentor engineers in operational excellence.
• Build and improve Infrastructure as Code and operational automation that enable safe patching updates rollbacks and change management.

• Apply robust security controls and remediation practices for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure including encryption access controls and compliance readiness.

What Youll Bring

• Bachelors or masters 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 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 practices.
• Experience with system-level test automation performance/load testing reliability engineering and production incident response.
• Demonstrated experience leading or influencing technical architecture and mentoring engineers.

• Strong problem-solving communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle Cloud AWS Azure Google Cloud or other large-scale cloud platforms.
• Experience with data-plane platforms distributed storage microservices replication state management or high-throughput data processing.
• Experience defining SLOs building observability systems and operating services in a 24x7 production environment.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code service automation security controls and compliance requirements for cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications
Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements such as immunization/occupational health mandates and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114600 to $234600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus equity and compensation deferral.


Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience market conditions and locations as well as reflect Oracles differing products industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical dental and vision insurance including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracles onboarding process and consistent with applicable law US-based employees are required to complete identity verification which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.