Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Are you passionate about building highly scalable distributed systems and solving complex infrastructure challenges?
Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) Object Storage Metadata Service (MDS) team, where you will design, develop, and operate critical distributed metadata infrastructure powering OCI Object Storage at cloud scale.
You will tackle challenging problems involving metadata consistency, scalability, performance, fault tolerance, and high availability. We are looking for a hands-on engineer with strong systems programming skills, end-to-end ownership, and an AI-first mindset to drive engineering productivity and innovation.

Qualification:

• 3-5+ years of software development experience, including building and operating production systems or large-scale distributed services.

• Proficiency in C++, Java, GO, Rust, with solid foundations in data structures, algorithms, software design, and performance optimization.

• Deep expertise in distributed systems design, including scalability, resiliency, concurrency, fault tolerance, service communication, and API design.

• Proven experience with cloud-native technologies, including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated testing frameworks.

• Experience building observability solutions using metrics, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting systems.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and a proactive approach to adopting AI-first engineering practices.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating distributed storage systems, object storage, metadata services, or distributed databases.

• Knowledge of distributed metadata management, partitioning, replication, consistency models, and recovery mechanisms.

• Experience optimizing cloud-scale services for latency, throughput, scalability, and availability.

• Experience operating globally distributed services across multiple regions and availability domains.

• Familiarity with OCI or other cloud infrastructure platforms, containers, and deployment automation.

• Experience developing AI-powered automation for software engineering, testing, debugging, or production operations.

How You'll Have Impact

• Build and enhance foundational metadata infrastructure supporting OCI Object Storage.

• Improve the scalability, performance, reliability, and operational efficiency of distributed storage services.

• Deliver critical infrastructure capabilities while maintaining high standards for software quality and production readiness.

• Accelerate engineering productivity through AI-assisted development, automation, andcontinuous improvement.

• Raise engineering quality and technical standards through mentorship, architectural leadership, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Ways of Working

• AI-first mindset: Incorporate AI-assisted tools into daily engineering workflows while applying sound engineering judgment.

• Ownership and accountability: Take responsibility for software quality, production reliability, and operational excellence.

• Engineering excellence: Emphasize clean code, automated testing, observability, security, and maintainability.

• Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, architects, and partner teams through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do

• Distributed Systems Engineering: Design, develop, and optimize high-performance distributed metadata service focusing on scalability, consistency, resiliency, and low latency.

• Reliability and Fault Tolerance: Build resilient infrastructure using replication, redundancy, failure recovery, and automated failover mechanisms.

• Infrastructure Automation: Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, testing frameworks, deployment automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.

• Production Operations: Support production services through monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and on-call rotations.

• Observability and Performance: Drive reliability, scalability, and operational readiness through capacity planning, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

• AI-First Engineering: Actively leverage AI tools for coding, debugging, testing, code reviews, incident analysis, and workflow automation to improve engineering velocity and quality.

• Engineering Excellence: Own features end-to-end, participate in design and code reviews, maintain technical documentation and runbooks, and collaborate with engineers and architects to deliver reliable cloud infrastructure.

• Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy across organizations, and help raise the engineering bar through design reviews and technical leadership.

Qualifications

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
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.