Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Seattle, WA +1

Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer at Oracle, focusing on designing, developing, and operating reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services, distributed systems, and workflow orchestration capabilities for OCI. The role involves hands-on coding, system design, and ownership of services from design to production, with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, implement, test, and operate production-grade cloud services.
  2. Build large-scale distributed systems with clear APIs, strong automation, and high availability.
  3. Develop highly scalable workflows for orchestration, automation, provisioning, and lifecycle management.
  4. Improve service reliability, observability, performance, and security at cloud scale.
  5. Reason about concurrency, state management, failure recovery, idempotency, latency, and throughput.

Skills

Required

  • backend services
  • large-scale distributed systems
  • cloud infrastructure
  • workflow orchestration platforms
  • high volume systems
  • high availability systems
  • complex failure scenarios
  • Java
  • Python
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • concurrency
  • networking
  • system design
  • API design
  • service contracts
  • asynchronous workflows
  • production-ready software components
  • cloud platforms
  • containerized services
  • CI/CD
  • observability
  • operational practices
  • reliability
  • latency
  • scalability
  • state transitions
  • retries
  • backpressure
  • trade-offs
  • communication skills
  • collaborative engineering mindset

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience