Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, CA, United States

• 3-5+ years of software development experience, including building and operating production systems or large-scale distributed services.

• Proficiency in C++, Java, GO, Rust, with solid foundations in data structures, algorithms, software design, and performance optimization.

• Deep expertise in distributed systems design, including scalability, resiliency, concurrency, fault tolerance, service communication, and API design.

• Proven experience with cloud-native technologies, including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated testing frameworks.

• Experience building observability solutions using metrics, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting systems.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and a proactive approach to adopting AI-first engineering practices.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills.

• Experience building or operating distributed storage systems, object storage, metadata services, or distributed databases.

• Knowledge of distributed metadata management, partitioning, replication, consistency models, and recovery mechanisms.

• Experience optimizing cloud-scale services for latency, throughput, scalability, and availability.

• Experience operating globally distributed services across multiple regions and availability domains.

• Familiarity with OCI or other cloud infrastructure platforms, containers, and deployment automation.

• Experience developing AI-powered automation for software engineering, testing, debugging, or production operations.

• Build and enhance foundational metadata infrastructure supporting OCI Object Storage.

• Improve the scalability, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency of distributed storage services.

• Deliver critical infrastructure capabilities while maintaining high standards for software quality and production readiness.

• Accelerate engineering productivity through AI-assisted development, automation, andcontinuous improvement.

• Raise engineering quality and technical standards through mentorship, architectural leadership, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• AI-first mindset: Incorporate AI-assisted tools into daily engineering workflows while applying sound engineering judgment.

• Ownership and accountability: Take responsibility for software quality, production reliability, and operational excellence.

• Engineering excellence: Emphasize clean code, automated testing, observability, security, and maintainability.

• Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, architects, and partner teams through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing

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