Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer
Oracle
- Location
- Onsite (Nashville, TN)
- Compensation
- $114k - $234k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the Role
Oracle is a global leader in AI, delivering the cloud infrastructure, data, and applications that organizations across the world trust to achieve business outcomes at scale. This role involves leading the development and architecture of scalable, elastic distributed systems and high-throughput workloads.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- AD&D
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Health Care Flexible Spending Account
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Pre-tax Commuter and Parking Benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan
- Flexible Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Parental Leave
- Adoption Assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial Planning
- Group Legal
- Auto Insurance
- Homeowner Insurance
- Pet Insurance
Full job details
Leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems. Defines and enforces scalability requirements for owned components; optimizes code and data paths for high‑throughput, hyper‑scale workloads; and leverages data plane platforms for large‑scale retrieval, storage, and processing. Designs fault‑tolerant, in‑service‑upgradable systems using redundancy, replication, failover, and policies for partitions, applying load‑shedding, throttling, and rate‑limiting to handle network unreliability while meeting SLOs. Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; and designs complex validation (fault injection, brownouts), replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability. Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness. Implements robust security controls, executes remediation, maintains compliance documentation, and develops IaC and automation that enable safe patching, updates, and rollbacks within change‑management plans.
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