Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Description

Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud computing. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and operation of compute operability solutions, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of OCI’s compute infrastructure. You’ll work with a team of innovative engineers to build and operate massive-scale, integrated cloud services that power businesses and organizations worldwide.

As a software engineer on the OCI Compute team, you will focus on enhancing the operability of our compute services, driving automation, and optimizing system reliability. Your work will directly impact the performance of mission-critical workloads for Oracle’s global customers, solving complex challenges in distributed systems, high-availability computing, and operational excellence.

Major focus areas of software maintained by the team include:

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Designing and implementing highly scalable systems capable of functioning across numerous regions in a worldwide cloud footprint.

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Building systems for orchestrating large-scale fleet management actions

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Working on a strategic system to manage power in our new and upcoming AI datacenters

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Contributing to our Compute usage systems which are critical to OCI billing

The successful hire will have passion for automation, preventing customer impact, operational excellence, and solving large-scale, complex problems.

Note that this role is onsite in our downtown Nashville, TN offices and Oracle is 5 days in the office.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance compute operability solutions for OCI.

• Develop tools, frameworks, and automation to enhance the operational efficiency of compute infrastructure.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in large-scale distributed systems.

• Drive the adoption of best practices for system reliability, performance tuning, and operational excellence.

• Mentor junior engineers

• Innovate to improve system availability, reduce latency, and optimize resource utilization.

• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 service reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering

• Expertise in compute operability, including virtualization, containerization, or orchestration technologies (e.g., KVM, Docker, Kubernetes).

• Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.

• Strong data analysis experience and proficiency in SQL

• Experience with large-scale system design, automation, and operational tools (e.g., Grafana, Terraform, Prometheus).

• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts, including IaaS, PaaS, or serverless architectures.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a track record of resolving technical challenges.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a globally distributed team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Contributions to open-source projects or a strong portfolio of technical innovation.

• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, ELK stack) and incident management processes.

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: $79,200 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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 Oracle's 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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• 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. Career Level - IC3