Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer at Oracle

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer who is passionate about

solving complex engineering problems in distributed systems, virtualized

infrastructure, and highly available storage services.

In this hands-on technical role, you will lead the design and development of

major components and features within the OCI Block Storage Service. You will

architect scalable and elastic distributed systems, optimize critical code and

data paths, and design systems that maintain correctness, durability,

availability, and performance at hyperscale.

You will also play an important role in operational excellence by improving

observability, diagnosing complex production issues, strengthening security and

compliance, driving automation, and mentoring other engineers.

Success in this role requires strong programming fundamentals, deep distributed

systems expertise, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to work

effectively across both detailed implementation and broad system-level design.

RESPONSIBILITIES

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

* Design and architect scalable distributed systems: Lead the design and

implementation of major Block Storage components that support horizontal and

vertical scaling, elasticity, distributed state management, and large-scale

data processing.

* Drive performance and efficiency at scale: Optimize software, data paths, and

system interactions for high-throughput, hyperscale workloads; establish

scalability requirements and develop appropriate performance and load-testing

strategies.

* Engineer highly reliable and durable services: Design fault-tolerant systems

using redundancy, replication, synchronization, and automated failover while

enabling in-service upgrades and minimizing customer-visible disruption.

* Design for distributed-systems failure modes: Develop systems that behave

predictably during network partitions, infrastructure failures, and traffic

spikes by applying appropriate consistency and availability models, load

shedding, throttling, and rate limiting.

* Ensure correctness, availability, and observability: Define functional and

correctness requirements, establish KPIs and telemetry, build dashboards and

alerts, and create sophisticated validation strategies such as fault

injection and brownout testing.

* Own operational excellence: Proactively diagnose, debug, and resolve complex

production issues; participate in operational support rotations; conduct or

guide root-cause investigations; and ensure systems meet

operational-readiness standards.

* Strengthen security and compliance: Implement security controls for

multi-tenant cloud environments, including encryption and access controls;

remediate identified vulnerabilities and maintain infrastructure and

supporting documentation in accordance with applicable requirements.

* Advance automation and engineering practices: Develop Infrastructure as Code

(IaC), tooling, and automated workflows for provisioning, patching, updating,

deployment, and rollback while mentoring engineers and contributing to strong

engineering practices across the team.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

MANDATORY

* 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience designing

and delivering large-scale, highly available distributed systems or backend

services.

* Strong hands-on programming experience developing production-quality software

in Java, C++, or comparable systems/backend programming languages.

* Experience with scripting or automation languages such as Python.

* Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, multithreading,

and distributed systems fundamentals.

* Demonstrated experience designing systems for scalability, high availability,

fault tolerance, durability, and performance.

* Working knowledge of networking fundamentals and protocols, including TCP/IP,

HTTP, and common network architectures.

* Strong production troubleshooting, debugging, performance analysis, and

performance-tuning capabilities.

* Ability to independently own complex technical components while collaborating

effectively in an agile engineering environment.

GOOD-TO-HAVE

* Experience building or operating multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.

* Experience with virtualized storage infrastructure, block storage, storage

systems, or data-management platforms.

* Experience designing replication, synchronization, consistency, and failover

mechanisms in distributed systems.

* Experience with cloud service observability, including telemetry, metrics,

dashboards, alerting, and SLO-based operations.

* Experience designing and executing fault-injection, brownout, resilience,

performance, or large-scale load tests.

* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated cloud

infrastructure provisioning, deployment, patching, and rollback.

* Knowledge of cloud security practices, including encryption, access controls,

vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.

* Experience participating in production support rotations, incident response,

and root-cause analysis for large-scale services.

* Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and

contribute to architectural decisions across teams.

SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS

Before applying, consider the following:

1. Have I spent significant time designing and delivering large-scale, highly

available distributed systems or backend services in production

environments?

2. Can I independently design a distributed-system component while reasoning

about scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, consistency, durability,

availability, and performance trade-offs?

3. Do I have strong hands-on coding experience in Java, C++, or a comparable

language, along with solid knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and

multithreaded programming?

4. Can I diagnose complex production issues across software, networking,

infrastructure, and distributed-system interactions and drive them through

root-cause analysis and resolution?

5. Am I comfortable owning the full lifecycle of a critical service

component—from architecture and implementation through testing,

observability, security, deployment, and production operations?

QUALIFICATIONS

Career Level – IC4

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