Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure at Oracle in Nashville, TN

Job description

NOTE: This role will sit onsite at our Nashville, TN location. Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with industry leading compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. As part of this effort, the Object Storage Service team is looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, large scale storage, and highly available services. If this is you, you can be part of the team that drives the best-in-class Object Storage Service into the next phase of its development. These are exciting times for the service - we are growing fast, and delivering on innovative, enterprise class features to satisfy the most demanding big data and enterprise workloads for our customers. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact. As a senior engineer, you will own the software design and development for major components and features of the Object Storage Service. You should be both a rock-solid coder and with familiarity of distributed systems. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. 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. 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 proactively detect and address issues/failures. –Supports efforts to recover from failures by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures. –Builds and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health. System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability: –Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an