Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer (Application Architecture and Design)

About the team

Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.rotations. You will drive performance testing, observability, security, and operational excellence while embracing AI-first engineering practices, leveraging AI tools for coding, debugging, testing, and automation to improve development velocity, software quality, and operational efficiency.

Description

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

Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
8 years of experience in software development

OR

Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development

OR

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development

OR

Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development

OR

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development

OR

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.

Job Skills:
Same skills as prior level plus;
Distributed Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of distributed systems, including designing or managing scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.
Prototyping: Demonstrated experience creating and refining prototypes for system validation and stakeholder feedback.
Computer Science Programming: Demonstrated understanding of computer science principles and ability to implement them in code.
Software Engineering: Demonstrated proficiency in all phases of software engineering and development.
Web Development: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of web development, including designing, developing, or maintaining modern web applications using current frameworks.
Innovation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of innovation, including generating or supporting new ideas, technologies, or processes for organizational growth.
Cross-Functional/Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of cross-functional collaboration, including working with stakeholders across teams or geographies to achieve common objectives.
Information Vulnerabilities: Demonstrated ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT and physical information assets.
Operating Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of operating systems, including installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting various operating environments.
API Development: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, and maintain secure APIs for application integration.
API Integration: Demonstrated ability to build and manage robust API integrations for seamless interoperability between systems.
Applied Algorithm Engineering: Demonstrated skill in designing, analyzing, and optimizing algorithms for efficiency and scalability.
Source Control: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of source control, including managing and documenting code versions and release branches.

Cloud - Cloud Platforms Experience:
2 years of professional experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).
Testing and Automation Experience:
3 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.
Distributed Systems Experience:
2 year of experience working with delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
8 years of experience in software development

OR

Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development

OR

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development

OR

Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development

OR

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development

OR

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics.
People Leadership / Management Experience:
2 year of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).