Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Austin, TX +1

Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer at Oracle responsible for software design and development of major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. Requires experience with large-scale distributed systems, networking, Docker, Terraform, and debugging low-level systems. The role involves mentorship and leading complex design and operational challenges, with an expectation to help lead the team's transition into agentic AI development.

What you'd actually do

  1. own the software design and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure
  2. be a rock-solid developer, driven problem solver and have experience supporting large scale data planes
  3. be well versed in design and techniques to debug and dive deep on low level systems such as networking architecture, Docker, and Terraform as well as having broad knowledge on distributed systems
  4. be a team player and leader who is not afraid to step into mentorship and take point on complex design and operational challenges
  5. help lead the team as it transitions into the future of software development

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years’ experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems
  • Strong knowledge of a base language such as Java
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals
  • Experience with tools such as Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
  • Deep knowledge with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and network architectures
  • Ability to design, troubleshoot and maintain networking infrastructure for high throughput use cases
  • Strong understanding of databases, storage, and distributed persistence technologies
  • Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills

Nice to have

  • interest in AI adoption including prompt engineering and agentic programming
  • ChatGPT and Codex experience
  • preference for functional programming language such as Scala
  • Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI deveopment