Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

OCI is expanding rapidly across existing and new regions. The Next Generation Networking organization is investing in systems that reduce customer impact minutes while enabling operational scale with flat or sub-linear headcount growth in Network Engineering and Operations.

In this high-impact role, you will work on the design & architecture for a unified global intelligence and control layer, fusing real-time observability with near-term traffic prediction to enable a closed-loop Observe–Predict–Decide–Act model. You will combine networking and distributed-systems expertise with automation, algorithms, and applied AI/ML to build resilient, highly available services at hyper scale. You will collaborate closely with Network Engineering, Network Automation and Monitoring, OCI Resilience and Reliability to deliver end-to-end capabilities that improve OCI reliability and customer experience.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate distributed control-plane and observability software for data center and WAN network orchestration.
• Develop algorithms for route computation, congestion management, fault isolation, traffic steering, and recovery.
• Build systems that correlate real-time network and infrastructure signals, identify customer impact, and trigger safe automated responses.
• Design and Build scalable, fault-tolerant, secure, and highly available services that operate reliably at OCI scale.
• Drive complex incident analysis and resolution across distributed systems and real-time network state.
• Maintain clear technical documentation for architecture, implementation, operational procedures, and system evolution.
• Collaborate closely with cloud platform teams, including compute, networking, search, and storage.
• Contribute to a fast-growing, early-stage team, helping shape direction and execute on ambitious new initiatives.

 

Preferred Qualifications:
 

• 5+ years of experience in distributed cloud engineering, building software in production development environments.
• Strong networking fundamentals, applying L2/L3, TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, switching, and network security to build network controller.
• Hands-on development experience in Java, Go, or Rust, including service-oriented architectures and secure web services.
• Strong experience with distributed systems, fault tolerance, algorithms, system reliability, and real-time state management.
• Experience applying machine learning or AI frameworks and techniques to operational or network intelligence problems is a plus.
• Proven cross-team collaboration, working with multiple cloud platform teams to meet shared and interdependent requirements.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills, with comfort operating in a collaborative, agile engineering environment.

 

Join OCI Networking to build the intelligence systems that help Oracle’s cloud customers connect, scale, and succeed worldwide.

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:
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.

Career Level - IC3

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