Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including 1+ year designing, delivering, or operating scalable, cloud-native distributed systems.
• Proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages, preferably Go and/or Java; working knowledge of scripting or automation languages such as Python.
• Experience contributing to products from the ground up through the full software development lifecycle.
• Understanding of microservice design patterns, service-to-service communication protocols, and techniques for building highly reliable services.
• Familiarity with service observability, including dashboards, critical service metrics, alarms, and operational health indicators.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and programming paradigms.
• Experience with production operations and practices for safely deploying quality code, participating in on-call rotations, and troubleshooting incidents.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing through design documents, proposals, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
• You are a cloud development engineer who has contributed to high-scale, high-impact solutions.
• You are customer-focused and consistently look for ways to exceed expectations.
• You communicate technical concepts clearly and work effectively with diverse partners.
• You hold yourself and your work to a high standard, continuously seeking better engineering outcomes.
• You are comfortable operating in an evolving environment and can bring structure to ambiguity.
• You are passionate about technology, able to advocate for your ideas constructively, and open to evidence-based alternatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Experience building control-plane or data-plane solutions for cloud-native platforms.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving performance, reliability, or scaling issues in complex distributed environments.
• Understanding of the physical asset lifecycle in a cloud-scale data center.
• Experience with Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) systems or related tools.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure components such as service discovery, secret storage, containerization, and software-defined networking.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate services and tools that accelerate OCI compute and network capacity growth.
• Work with engineers and partner teams to define and deliver reliable, scalable capabilities for the physical asset lifecycle.
• Investigate issues across the stack, resolve root causes, and improve service reliability, performance, and operational readiness.
• Apply sound distributed-systems and cloud-infrastructure principles to deliver resilient production services.
• Build and maintain meaningful service telemetry, dashboards, alarms, and runbooks to support operational excellence.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; use operational learnings to drive durable improvements.
• Contribute to technical designs, architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering standards.
• Balance speed and quality through iterative, incremental delivery and thoughtful prioritization.
• Work independently on well-defined problems and provide technical mentorship and support to junior engineers.
• Communicate progress, risks, and technical trade-offs clearly, and help build consensus using data and sound engineering judgment.
• You are a cloud development engineer who has contributed to high-scale, high-impact solutions.
• You are customer-focused and consistently look for ways to exceed expectations.
• You communicate technical concepts clearly and work effectively with diverse partners.
• You hold yourself and your work to a high standard, continuously seeking better engineering outcomes.
• You are comfortable operating in an evolving environment and can bring structure to ambiguity.
• You are passionate about technology, able to advocate for your ideas constructively, and open to evidence-based alternatives.