Senior Software Engineer, Core Infra

Salary: $79,200 - 209,500 per year Requirements:

• We are looking for experience designing and optimizing components in distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resilience, and operability.
• We expect familiarity with horizontal and vertical scaling, distributed state management, and large-scale data processing.
• We value experience with performance and load testing, fault-tolerant design, and mechanisms such as redundancy, replication, automatic failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• We seek someone who can proactively identify and resolve issues using tests, alarms, dashboards, telemetry, runbooks, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• We require knowledge of standard replication and synchronization approaches, as well as automation and Infrastructure as Code for troubleshooting and maintenance.
• We expect experience applying security controls such as encryption and access management, along with supporting compliance and documentation standards.
• We are looking for someone able to track timelines with limited supervision, prioritize work as needs change, collaborate across teams, solve problems independently, and contribute to continuous learning and improvement.
• Career Level: IC3

• We design, implement, and improve distributed system components that can scale efficiently and operate reliably.
• We develop and deliver features, along with performance and load tests, for high-volume systems.
• We use data plane platforms and distributed state tools to support large-scale retrieval, storage, and processing.
• We review peer implementations to ensure they meet scalability expectations.
• We build fault-tolerant paths using redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
• We apply recovery-oriented design principles and introduce retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts to handle network instability.
• We create tests, alarms, dashboards, telemetry, and alerting to detect and address issues early.
• We write and execute runbooks and operational procedures to support recovery from failures.
• We design functional features and test scenarios, including fault-injection and brown-out testing, to verify correctness and availability.
• We diagnose, debug, and resolve operational issues, including participation in incident response and root-cause investigations.
• We build automation scripts and tooling for troubleshooting and maintenance.
• We apply encryption, access controls, and remediation measures to protect data and applications.
• We help ensure cloud infrastructure meets compliance requirements and that documentation stays current.
• We maintain Infrastructure as Code and other automation tools for managing cloud infrastructure.
• We follow change management procedures for patching, upgrades, and rollbacks.
• We coordinate timelines, align with other teams, and adjust priorities as project needs evolve.
• We contribute to knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and process improvements.

• Cloud
• Support
• Network
• Oracle
• Security
• DevOps
• Incident Management
• Windows

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We are collaborating with Oracle to connect exceptional professionals with this role. This position is based on building and operating distributed systems at scale, with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, security, and automation. Oracle offers a competitive US salary range of $79,200 to $209,500 per year, with possible bonus and equity eligibility, plus a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) with company match; paid time off; 11 paid holidays; paid sick leave; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal support; and voluntary insurance options. The role generally accepts applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or while the position remains open.

last updated 40 week of 2026