Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at large scale in a distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Join OCl Networking to build highly scalable and customizable services offering predictable and consistent performance, isolation, and availability.
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/networking/
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for engineers with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the software development and design of the features and launching them into production. You’ve operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances but must abide by compliance and regulations.
The ideal candidate will contribute to the software design and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.
What are the biggest challenges for the team?
The team is rebuilding the distributed system as a workflow. The dynamic and fast growth of the business is driving us to build brand new innovative technologies. We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution.
We need engineers who can build services that can reliably protect our customer cloud environment. We need engineers who can figure out how we can keep up our solution in a fast pace to securely protect our customers. We need engineers who can build services that enable us to offer even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Cloud.
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $79,200 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC3
Design, architect, and build large-scale distributed systems that enable rapid region builds and network orchestration across OCI.
Drive development of services and frameworks that simplify complex networking challenges at scale.
Collaborate across multiple teams from OCl to design unified, automated, and observable systems.
Lead technical direction for high-impact projects, mentoring engineers and shaping design reviews with simplicity and resilience in mind.
Improve service reliability, latency, and operational automation through intelligent tooling, metrics, and self-healing systems.
Partner with senior leadership to influence architectural strategy and guide OCI's region-build roadmap.
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability — where people take pride in building things that matter
Strong knowledge and interest in AI adoption including prompt engineering and agentic programming, with ChatGPT and Codex experience
Required Qualifications
BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience.
5-8+ years of total experience in software development
Demonstrated ability to write great code using Java, GoLang, C#, or similar OO languages.
Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software development lifecycle.
Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services infrastructure.
Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one livesite servicing.
Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive
Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability, market-leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands.
Preferred Qualifications
Hands-on experience developing and maintaining services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) languages, preferably Terraform
Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL)
Experience with Kafka, Apache Spark and other big data technologies
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