Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with industry leading compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

As part of this effort, Block Storage Service team is looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, large scale storage, and highly available services. If this is you, you can be part of the team that drives the best in class Block Storage Service into the next phase of its development. These are exciting times for the service - we are growing fast, and delivering on innovative, enterprise class features to satisfy the most demanding file system workloads for our customers. An engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in developing commercial software in a distributed environment.
• Proficiency in high-level languages like Python or Go, Java
• Knowledge of provisioning tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Deep knowledge of Linux/Unix administration and Storage & networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, iSCSI).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms.
• Expertise in deployment pipelines and monitoring tools like Grafana.
• Skill in writing contextual instructions and managing memory for AI agents

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.

• Writing code to automate repetitive, manual administrative tasks so software can run smoothly and efficiently.
• Building observability platforms using tools like Grafana to monitor system performance and anticipate problems before users notice them.
• Conducting thorough analyses after a system failure to understand the root cause and improve future responses.
• Forecasting system resource usage to ensure cloud servers can handle unexpected spikes in traffic or data

Career Level - IC3