Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer
Oracle · Posted Oct 16
Cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, database systems, and AI-powered business applications
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About the role
The role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability. It involves building fault-tolerant paths, performance and load testing, telemetry, incident response, and automation/IaC for cloud infrastructure. The engineer will also apply advanced security controls and ensure compliance and documentation standards are met.
What you will do
- Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
- Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
- Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
- Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
- Implements performance and load testing.
- Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
- Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.
- Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
- Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
- Builds and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.
- Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
- Implements tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
- Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.
- Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
- Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
- Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
- Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.
- Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
- Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
- Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date
- Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
- Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
- Strong fluency in C++ or Java or similar modern languages
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and build control plane systems for cloud scale
- Strong systems programming skills, including experience with multi-threading and concurrency.
- A solid foundation in distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, scaling, failure recovery).
- Experience with implementation testing, debugging, and documentation, specifically within a Linux development environment.
- BS in Computer Science; Masters Preffered
- Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology company specializing in cloud-engineered hardware, enterprise software, and database management systems. It provides comprehensive cloud solutions such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Applications (OCA) to power digital transformations globally. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a major player in enterprise AI integration and database solutions.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 141000 employees
- Founded
- 1977
- Location
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $56B raised
- 2025-10-24Post IPO Debt$18B
- 2025-02-03Conventional Debt$18B
Leadership
Lawrence J. Ellison
Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer
Clay Magouyrk
Chief Executive Officer
Mike Sicilia
Chief Executive Officer
Hilary Maxson
Chief Financial Officer
Jae Evans
Global Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
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