Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

** Job Description*
* At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for enterprises. We combine the

pace and ownership of a start-up with the scale, reliability, and customer focus required to run one of

the world's leading enterprise cloud platforms.

** Responsibilities*
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** What You'll Do** - Design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, views, policies, androuting configuration.

- Build reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, andlifecycle management across distributed DNS infrastructure.

- Develop production services and libraries primarily in Java, with supporting automation in Pythonwhere needed, and a strong focus on API design and correctness.

- Use AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate implementation, testing,incident investigation, and operational automation, with appropriate human review, security, and quality controls.

- Improve safety and operational resilience through idempotent workflows, optimistic concurrency,auditability, rollback paths, canary releases, and feature flags.

- Own observability and operational readiness: metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, runbooks, capacity planning, and thoughtful on-call participation.

- Partner with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams to deliver secure, end-to-end platform improvements.

- Contribute technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and mentoring of other engineers.

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** Required Qualifications** - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and operating resilient production services.

- 4+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade distributed systems, cloud services,and/or control-plane platforms.

- Strong proficiency in Java, including production service development, concurrent programming, and performance troubleshooting.

- Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to improvedesign, code generation, testing, troubleshooting, and process automation while maintaining strongengineering judgment.

- Strong API design skills, including RESTful service design and OpenAPI/Swagger or comparableAPI contracts.

- Experience designing reliable stateful workflows, including asynchronous processing, retries,idempotency, concurrency control, and failure recovery.

- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and highly available distributed systems.

- Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE | ENGINEERINGSenior Core Infrastructure Engineer - DNS Control Plane

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration automation, especially Terraform and toolssuch as Ansible or Chef.

- Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, with a commitment tosecure and safe rollout practices.

- Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.

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** Preferred Qualifications** - DNS expertise, including authoritative DNS, zone and record management, DNS delegation, TTLs,DNSSEC, and DNS change propagation.

- Experience with cloud control planes, resource lifecycle management, or multi-tenant platform APIs.

- Knowledge of internet protocols and security standards, including DNS, TLS, HTTP, and REST.

- Experience with relational or distributed data stores and schema evolution for highly available services.

- Familiarity with modern CI/CD platforms such as OCI Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, or Git Lab CI/CD,and engineering productivity tools including Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.

- Experience operating mission-critical services in a 24/7 environment.

** What Success Looks Like*
* + You deliver control-plane capabilities that make DNS changes safer, faster, and easier for customers and internal operators.

- You improve the reliability, auditability, and operability of DNS configuration workflows at scale.

- You raise engineering standards through pragmatic design, rigorous testing, and collaborativetechnical leadership.

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:

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