Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer
Eeho Jobsearch · Seattle, Washington, United States
As Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid expansion, we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (IC3) to join our Database and Host Automation team. This team builds the services and host agents that manage database infrastructure at scale, supporting provisioning, lifecycle management, live database migrations, maintenance, recovery, and region bootstrap.
This is a greenfield opportunity to design and build new automation services and secure host execution capabilities from the ground up. Your work will connect durable, fleet-wide orchestration with reliable database and operating system operations on individual hosts, improving availability, consistency, and operational safety while minimizing customer disruption.
You will independently drive complex projects from architecture through production operation, collaborating with database, infrastructure, and security teams. As a technical leader, you will guide design decisions, deliver robust software, mentor engineers, and improve engineering and operational practices across the broader organization.
An engineer at any level can have a significant technical and business impact. In our area, we specialize on everything related to distributed database systems and cloud services. We are looking for people who have experience or are deeply interested in databases, distributed systems and cloud services. There is always something new to do at our team, whether it’s enhancing our existing products or building a completely new one from scratch.
As a member of the Cloud Services Development teams, you will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. Our team is the centralized database store for Oracle Public Cloud.
Here are some recommended skills that will help you succeed at your job:
- 5+ years of experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems and/or cloud services
- Strong knowledge of Java with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, etc.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, distributed systems and cloud services fundamentals
- Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures
- Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies especially in cloudDesign, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
- Strong knowledge of Terraforms and/or Ansible is preferred
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 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 existing system.
–Implements tests scenarios (e.g., fault-injection, brown-out) to evaluate system correctness.
–Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.
Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
–Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
–Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
–Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
–Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.
Compliance & Security:
–Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
–Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
–Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date
Automation & Change Management:
–Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
–Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
–Track timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements.
–Prioritize and adjust work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance
Collaboration & Partnership:
–Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.
Problem Solving:
–Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices
Continuous Learning:
–Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools, and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members..
Continuous Improvement:
–Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.
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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
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