Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle
Montgomery, AL, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Part-time (≤ 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
4 years minimum
Compensation
$79,200.0 - $209,500.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Confluence JIRA Cloud Computing Code Generation Code Review Concurrency Controls Concurrent Computing Continuous Integration Linux
+26 more
DevOps Distributed Data Store Distributed Systems Domain Name System Security Extensions Domain Name System (DNS) Github Networking Basics Productivity Software E2e Testing Software Tools Cloud Services Ansible Swagger Service Design Service Development Studio Software Engineering Openapi Core Api Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Bitbucket Api Design Restful APIs Terraform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Docker

Job description

  • What You’ll Do - Design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, views, policies, androuting configuration.- Build reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, andlifecycle management across distributed DNS infrastructure.- Develop production services and libraries primarily in Java, with supporting automation in Pythonwhere needed, and a strong focus on API design and correctness.- Use AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate implementation, testing,incident investigation, and operational automation, with appropriate human review, security, andquality controls.- Improve safety and operational resilience through idempotent workflows, optimistic concurrency,auditability, rollback paths, canary releases, and feature flags.- Own observability and operational readiness: metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, runbooks, capacityplanning, and thoughtful on-call participation.- Partner with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams to deliver secure, end-to-endplatform improvements.- Contribute technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, andmentoring of other engineers.

Requirements

  • Required Qualifications - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping andoperating resilient production services.- 4+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade distributed systems, cloud services,and/or control-plane platforms.- Strong proficiency in Java, including production service development, concurrent programming, andperformance troubleshooting.- Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to improvedesign, code generation, testing, troubleshooting, and process automation while maintaining strongengineering judgment.- Strong API design skills, including RESTful service design and OpenAPI/Swagger or comparableAPI contracts.- Experience designing reliable stateful workflows, including asynchronous processing, retries,idempotency, concurrency control, and failure recovery.- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and highly available distributedsystems.- Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE | ENGINEERINGSenior Core Infrastructure Engineer - DNS Control PlaneExperience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration automation, especially Terraform and toolssuch as Ansible or Chef.- Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, with a commitment tosecure and safe rollout practices.- Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively acrossorganizational boundaries.

  • Preferred Qualifications - DNS expertise, including authoritative DNS, zone and record management, DNS delegation, TTLs,DNSSEC, and DNS change propagation.- Experience with cloud control planes, resource lifecycle management, or multi-tenant platform APIs.- Knowledge of internet protocols and security standards, including DNS, TLS, HTTP, and REST.- Experience with relational or distributed data stores and schema evolution for highly availableservices.- Familiarity with modern CI/CD platforms such as OCI DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD,and engineering productivity tools including Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.- Experience operating mission-critical services in a 24/7 environment.

What Success Looks Like

  • You deliver control-plane capabilities that make DNS changes safer, faster, and easier forcustomers and internal operators.- You improve the reliability, auditability, and operability of DNS configuration workflows at scale.- You raise engineering standards through pragmatic design, rigorous testing, and collaborativetechnical leadership.

Benefits & conditions

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.

Career Level - IC3

About the company

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for enterprises. We combine the

pace and ownership of a start-up with the scale, reliability, and customer focus required to run one of

the world’s leading enterprise cloud platforms., Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

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