Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer, Software Engineering

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

• We are looking for engineers with experience in systems programming, operating systems, virtualization, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or performance engineering.
• We value people who enjoy working close to the hardware and solving problems where correctness, speed, security, and availability are all critical.
• Experience with low-level systems software, modern server hardware, or cloud-scale reliability is especially relevant.

• We design and build hypervisor and host-side software that securely runs and isolates multi-tenant virtual machines at cloud scale.
• We enable and optimize OCI compute platforms across Intel, AMD, and Arm hardware, with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• We develop virtualization features such as live migration to support maintenance and hardware lifecycle events with minimal customer disruption.
• We design fault-tolerant systems with in-service updates, automatic recovery, safe rollback, and high availability.
• We investigate and resolve complex issues across hypervisor software, guest VMs, host operating systems, hardware, networking, and storage.
• We build automated validation, performance, stress, fault-injection, and compatibility testing for new platforms and features.
• We instrument services with telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks to detect, diagnose, and recover from operational issues.
• We participate in operational support rotation, incident response, root-cause analysis, and follow-up improvements.
• We build security capabilities that strengthen workload isolation and platform integrity, including hardened firmware and protections such as Shielded Instances.
• We develop tooling and automation for deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, configuration management, and safe rollout of hypervisor changes.
• We collaborate with hardware vendors and partner engineering teams to qualify new server platforms and deliver end-to-end compute features.
• We document designs, operational procedures, and technical decisions, and share knowledge to improve our engineering practices.
• We plan and deliver work with increasing independence while balancing feature delivery, operational commitments, technical debt, and customer impact.

• ARM
• Cloud
• Firmware
• Hardware
• Support
• Oracle
• Security
• DevOps

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hackajob is collaborating with Oracle to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We are building the hypervisor technology that powers Oracle Cloud Infrastructure virtual machines, enabling secure, high-performance, multi-tenant compute at global scale. Our team works at the intersection of low-level systems software, virtualization, modern server hardware, and cloud reliability, shaping how customers experience OCI Compute from instance launch through maintenance and availability. We offer a broad benefits package in the US, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, disability and life insurance, paid time off, holidays, parental leave, adoption assistance, financial planning, legal support, and an employee stock purchase plan. The role may also be eligible for bonus and equity depending on location and other factors.

last updated 42 week of 2026