OCI Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer - Nashville TN

This position is based in our Nashville, TN campus.  Relocation allowance available no remote work 

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications.

What is IAM at OCI?

Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows users to control who has access to their cloud resources. As part of the Cloud Platform organization, the team is responsible for the design and build of core services that are utilized by internal and external customers alike.

Who are we seeking?

We are looking for engineers with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You’ve operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You work on most projects and tasks independently. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances, but have to abide by compliance and regulations. You stay up at night thinking about how to protect the service from upstream dependencies.
The ideal candidate will be technically strong and get a lot done – you’ve worked on services that are highly available, scalable, and redundant. You understand that simple systems are easier to operate and troubleshoot. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You’ve made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument properly to get the right data.
You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of being proactive with your teammates. You find anomalies in graphs that didn’t trip any alarms and root cause problems before they become real problems.
The person in this role will get a lot done on a daily basis, drive tactical execution of features and projects, and own feature design.

What are the biggest challenges for the team?

The biggest challenges for the team are reliability and performance. The growth of the business is driving us to improve the ability of our systems to scale out and handle traffic patterns that are several orders of magnitude greater than what we can support today.
We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution.
We need engineers who can build services that handle millions of requests per second. We need engineers who can figure out how we can survive regional data center outages and protect our customers. We need engineers who can build services that enable us to offer even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Cloud.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing and operating services on public cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience leveraging AI/LLM technologies to improve Java application support, automate log and incident analysis, and build secure, reliable AI-enabled solutions.
• Understanding of multi-Availability Domain/Availability Zone architectures and regional data center design.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with robust automated testing, deployment controls, and release schedules.
• Experience working with Docker and containerized applications.
• Experience partnering with internal customers to translate requests into prioritized features and work plans.
• Expertise applying threat modeling and other risk-identification techniques to design secure solutions.
• Experience with FedRAMP, PCI DSS, or similar compliance, security, and audit requirements.
• Experience supporting large enterprise customers.

Career Level - IC3
 

Responsibilities:

We’re looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems and highly available services. As a Senior Software Engineer you will lead the software design and development for major components of this platform. You should be both a rock solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low level systems as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should have experience operating large cloud services and have good familiarity with operational tools. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

This role is based in Nashville TN so candidates who do not currently live in the Nashville area will need to relocate

Salary : $79,200 - $209,500