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# Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Columbia, SC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $79,200.0 - $209,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Confluence, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Code Generation, Code Review, Concurrency Controls, Concurrent Computing, Continuous Integration, Linux, 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
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3375491288&tx=IT8982TYD&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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.


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