Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer- Nashville

Role Overview

NOTE: This is an in-office role onsite in Nashville, TN Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud computing. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and operation of compute operability solutions, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of OCI’s compute infrastructure. You’ll work with a team of innovative engineers to build and operate massive-scale, integrated cloud services that power businesses and organizations worldwide.

NOTE: This is an in-office role onsite in Nashville, TN

Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud computing. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and operation of compute operability solutions, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of OCI’s compute infrastructure. You’ll work with a team of innovative engineers to build and operate massive-scale, integrated cloud services that power businesses and organizations worldwide.

As a software engineer on the OCI Compute team, you will focus on enhancing the operability of our compute services, driving automation, and optimizing system reliability. Your work will directly impact the performance of mission-critical workloads for Oracle’s global customers, solving complex challenges in distributed systems, high-availability computing, and operational excellence.

As a software engineer on the OCI Compute team, you will focus on enhancing the operability of our compute services, driving automation, and optimizing system reliability. Your work will directly impact the performance of mission-critical workloads for Oracle’s global customers, solving complex challenges in distributed systems, high-availability computing, and operational excellence.

Major focus areas of software maintained by the team include: Design and build the systems that bring new OCI regions online, turning billions of dollars in infrastructure investment into compute capacity for customers worldwide. Lead automation for fleet scaling and infrastructure deployment across OCI’s global footprint, supporting rapid growth in cloud and AI demand. Shape integration testing and readiness systems that catch failures before they delay region launches, accelerating delivery while protecting reliability. Serve as a technical leader in a high-impact, high-visibility role, driving decisions across Compute, Networking, Storage, and Security to solve complex regional expansion challenges. The successful hire will have passion for automation, preventing customer impact, operational excellence, and solving large-scale, complex problems.

Major focus areas of software maintained by the team include:

• Design and build the systems that bring new OCI regions online, turning billions of dollars in infrastructure investment into compute capacity for customers worldwide.
• Lead automation for fleet scaling and infrastructure deployment across OCI’s global footprint, supporting rapid growth in cloud and AI demand.
• Shape integration testing and readiness systems that catch failures before they delay region launches, accelerating delivery while protecting reliability.
• Serve as a technical leader in a high-impact, high-visibility role, driving decisions across Compute, Networking, Storage, and Security to solve complex regional expansion challenges.

Design and build the systems that bring new OCI regions online, turning billions of dollars in infrastructure investment into compute capacity for customers worldwide.

Lead automation for fleet scaling and infrastructure deployment across OCI’s global footprint, supporting rapid growth in cloud and AI demand.

Shape integration testing and readiness systems that catch failures before they delay region launches, accelerating delivery while protecting reliability.

Serve as a technical leader in a high-impact, high-visibility role, driving decisions across Compute, Networking, Storage, and Security to solve complex regional expansion challenges.

The successful hire will have passion for automation, preventing customer impact, operational excellence, and solving large-scale, complex problems.

Note that this role is onsite in our downtown Nashville, TN offices and Oracle is 5 days in the office. #LI-VC7

Note that this role is onsite in our downtown Nashville, TN offices and Oracle is 5 days in the office.

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Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance compute operability solutions for OCI.

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance compute operability solutions for OCI.

• Develop tools, frameworks, and automation to enhance the operational efficiency of compute infrastructure.

• Develop tools, frameworks, and automation to enhance the operational efficiency of compute infrastructure.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in large-scale distributed systems.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in large-scale distributed systems.

• Drive the adoption of best practices for system reliability, performance tuning, and operational excellence.

• Drive the adoption of best practices for system reliability, performance tuning, and operational excellence.

• Mentor junior engineers

• Mentor junior engineers

• Innovate to improve system availability, reduce latency, and optimize resource utilization.

• Innovate to improve system availability, reduce latency, and optimize resource utilization.

• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 service reliability.

• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 service reliability.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering

• Expertise in compute operability, including virtualization, containerization, or orchestration technologies (e.g., KVM, Docker, Kubernetes).

• Expertise in compute operability, including virtualization, containerization, or orchestration technologies (e.g., KVM, Docker, Kubernetes).

• Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.

• Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.

• Strong data analysis experience and proficiency in SQL

• Strong data analysis experience and proficiency in SQL

• Experience with large-scale system design, automation, and operational tools (e.g., Grafana, Terraform, Prometheus).

• Experience with large-scale system design, automation, and operational tools (e.g., Grafana, Terraform, Prometheus).

• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts, including IaaS, PaaS, or serverless architectures.

• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts, including IaaS, PaaS, or serverless architectures.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a track record of resolving technical challenges.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a track record of resolving technical challenges.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a globally distributed team.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a globally distributed team.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Contributions to open-source projects or a strong portfolio of technical innovation.

• Contributions to open-source projects or a strong portfolio of technical innovation.

• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, ELK stack) and incident management processes.

• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, ELK stack) and incident management processes.

Application Instructions

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