Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer - OCI Product Catalog (Nashville-TN)

Location: Nashville, TN — onsite 5 days/week. Relocation assistance is available; this is not a remote position.
The OCI Product Catalog team builds platform services that define and manage OCI products and their associated metadata, including integrations with SKUs, metering, limits, product availability, and lifecycle management.
The team is building a centralized product model and automation platform that enables OCI service teams to onboard, deploy, and manage products consistently across cloud environments while providing centralized control over product availability.
We are looking for a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer (IC3) with strong full-stack development experience to help design, build, and operate OCI Product Catalog.
This is a hands-on engineering role spanning distributed backend services, APIs, automation, and web-based operator experiences. The engineer will own features end to end, from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, observability, and production operation.
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 (redundancy, replication, 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 RCAs. Implements standard replication and synchronization, develops automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation) while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.
Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
8 years of experience in software development
OR
Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development
OR
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development
OR
Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
Job Skills:
Same skills as prior level plus;
Distributed Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of distributed systems, including designing or managing scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.
Prototyping: Demonstrated experience creating and refining prototypes for system validation and stakeholder feedback.
Computer Science Programming: Demonstrated understanding of computer science principles and ability to implement them in code.
Software Engineering: Demonstrated proficiency in all phases of software engineering and development.
Web Development: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of web development, including designing, developing, or maintaining modern web applications using current frameworks.
Innovation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of innovation, including generating or supporting new ideas, technologies, or processes for organizational growth.
Cross-Functional/Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of cross-functional collaboration, including working with stakeholders across teams or geographies to achieve common objectives.
Information Vulnerabilities: Demonstrated ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT and physical information assets.
Operating Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of operating systems, including installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting various operating environments.
API Development: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, and maintain secure APIs for application integration.
API Integration: Demonstrated ability to build and manage robust API integrations for seamless interoperability between systems.
Applied Algorithm Engineering: Demonstrated skill in designing, analyzing, and optimizing algorithms for efficiency and scalability.
Source Control: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of source control, including managing and documenting code versions and release branches.
Cloud - Cloud Platforms Experience:
2 years of professional experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).
Testing and Automation Experience:
3 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.
Distributed Systems Experience:
2 year of experience working with delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
8 years of experience in software development
OR
Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development
OR
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development
OR
Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics.
People Leadership / Management Experience:
2 year of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).
Key Responsibilities
System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:
–Implements and contributes to the development for components of distributed systems that support horizontal and vertical scaling including leveraging distributed state management tools.
–Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
–Implements scalability requirements for assigned components and reviews implementation of team members.
–Leverages components of data plane platforms to handle large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
–Implements performance and load testing.
System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:
–Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components capable of withstanding in-service updates by implementing redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
–Applies recovery oriented computing principles to design components that effectively handle service disruptions.
–Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to help handle network unreliability.
System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:
–Implements tests and alarm configurations to pr