Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer- Nashville, TN

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Description

As a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer within the Networking organization, you will spearhead the development of innovative services in the Networking Automation & Health domain to enable AI super clusters. This initiative involves building a robust software stack from the ground up to monitor and manage network infrastructure, automatically resolve network issues, and ensure high bandwidth with low-latency connections essential for AI workloads.

You will assemble and lead a team that combines software engineering excellence with network control expertise, collaborating with senior technical leaders to design and deliver solutions to complex and impactful challenges.

This is an exciting and transformative time for us. We are rapidly growing, still in the early stages, and driving ambitious initiatives such as network control plane development, network health monitoring, and auto-recovery services. We are seeking an experienced engineer with a deep understanding of systems design and distributed systems to build scalable, high-performance solutions.

This role is based out of Nashville, TN.

Responsibilities

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for engineers with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You've operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You work on most projects and tasks independently. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances, but have to abide by compliance and regulations.

The ideal candidate will own 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 building a brand new service.

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.

Required Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving coding or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ 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
• Distributed Systems - design , coding, testing, CI/CD, microservice, Cloud platforms, High scale/available, Operational Excellence
• AI - coding tool and process automation awareness
• Collaboration and communicate

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kafka, Apache Spark, Lucene and other big data technologies
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as…