Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

This is an opportunity to solve foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability problems with broad impact across OCI. We are hiring Senior Software engineers who are excited by large-scale cloud infrastructure, deployment orchestration, operational automation, and building trustworthy systems. You will help shape a new team and create the platforms that enable OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently at unprecedented scale.

Designs, implements, and optimizes scalable, resilient, and highly available distributed systems. Leverages data-plane and distributed state technologies, builds fault-tolerant mechanisms, and develops performance and reliability testing. Proactively monitors and resolves production issues through telemetry, dashboards, incident response, and RCAs. Develops IaC and automation, implements security controls, and ensures operational, change-management, and compliance standards are met.

Core responsibilities:

System Design & Architecture

• Develop and optimize scalable distributed systems using distributed state-management and data-plane technologies.
• Implement scalability requirements and performance/load testing for large-scale workloads.
• Build fault-tolerant components using redundancy, replication, failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Implement telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and fault testing to ensure reliability, correctness, and availability.
• Apply replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity.

Operational Excellence

• Diagnose and resolve production issues and automate troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Participate in incident response, operational support, and root cause analysis.
• Support in-service updates with minimal customer impact.

Security & Compliance

• Implement encryption, access controls, and security remediation.
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards and documentation requirements.

Automation & Change Management

• Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and operational automation.
• Follow change-management processes for patching, updates, and rollbacks.

Planning & Execution

• Track timelines, prioritize work, and adjust plans to meet project requirements.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Collaborate across teams and understand business, stakeholder, and customer needs.
• Seek and incorporate diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving

• Independently troubleshoot issues, escalate complex problems, and share best practices.

Continuous Learning

• Build new skills, stay current with industry trends, and promote knowledge sharing.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and recommend improvements to processes, workflows, and team practices.

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.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.