Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Location: Nashville, TN, United States

Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability. Delivers features and load/performance tests; leverages data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and reviews peers’ implementations for scalability compliance. Builds fault-tolerant paths—including redundancy, replication, and automatic failover—applies recovery-oriented principles, and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts. Proactively detects and mitigates issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks; and participates in incident response and root-cause analyses.

Develops high-quality software solutions that meet user needs and align with organizational business goals. This includes analyzing requirements, designing robust architectures, writing efficient and maintainable code, and conducting thorough testing. Implements standard replication and synchronization, develops automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies advanced security controls—including encryption, access controls, and remediation—while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.

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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software programs for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In this position, you will work autonomously with minimal supervision, leveraging exceptional organizational and problem-solving abilities. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people, with the autonomy and support to do your best work in a dynamic and flexible workplace. If you want to build large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud, this is your team.