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Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure in USA

  • Nashville, TN

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of hyperscale distributed systems and data-plane services.
  • Define and deliver scalability, elasticity, durability, availability, reliability, and operational-readiness requirements.
  • Optimize high-throughput data retrieval, storage, and processing using distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns.
  • Design fault-tolerant systems with redundancy, automatic failover, recovery, load shedding, throttling, rate limiting, retries, and timeouts.
  • Establish service-level objectives, performance indicators, telemetry, dashboards, and proactive alerting.
  • Lead performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing.
  • Lead production incident diagnosis and recovery, root-cause analysis, and operational excellence mentoring.
  • Build Infrastructure as Code and operational automation for patching, updates, rollbacks, and change management.
  • Apply encryption, access controls, security remediation, and compliance practices for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 7 years of professional software-engineering experience with demonstrated impact on large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software development.
  • Experience with system-level test automation, performance and load testing, reliability engineering, and production incident response.
  • Experience leading or influencing technical architecture and mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred experience includes Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, data-plane platforms, distributed storage, microservices, replication, state management, high-throughput processing, observability, 24x7 production operations, Infrastructure as Code, service automation, security controls, and cloud compliance.

Benefits

  • Office-based role requiring onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee; relocation assistance may be available under Oracle policies.
  • U.S. base salary range is $114,600 to $234,600 per annum, with possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and supplemental insurance benefits are offered.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match, employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, and group legal benefits are offered.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance are provided.
  • Additional benefits include commuter and parking benefits, flexible spending accounts, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.

Salary: $115k - $235k/yr

Oracle

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