Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Nashville, TN, United States

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.

The OCI Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team is building services and tools to accelerate the process by which OCI grows its compute and network capacity. The service will address all aspects of the physical asset lifecycle from planning and design, to delivery and, eventually, decommissioning enabling OCI to continue to grow its footprint in both existing regions and to entirely new regions.

We are looking for software engineers who are ready to tackle new challenges in designing, implementing and maintaining highly available and scalable services for managing physical assets throughout their lifecycle.

From a technology perspective, this is a greenfield development environment with a huge amount of autonomy, leaving us free to build and innovate while integrating with existing systems through well-established contracts.

About You:

• You are an experienced cloud engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-scale, high-impact solutions
• You are obsessed with the customer, always exceeding expectations
• You have excellent communication skills. You can clearly explain complex technical concepts
• You are a disciplined engineer who understands the importance of high standards, never satisfied with mediocrity and constantly striving for excellence
• You are comfortable with ambiguity in a chaotic and fluid environment
• You are passionate about technology and are not afraid to defend your opinions or position with peers/superiors

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment
• Strong grasp of Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms)
• Proficient in Java or Python
• You are experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols
• Experience with production operations and best practices for putting quality code in production and troubleshoot issues when they arise
• Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing (technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations) 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience building control plane/data plane solutions for cloud native companies
• Experience in diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving performance issues in complex environments

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

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Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.