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# Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Nashville, TN, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,600.0 - $234,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, User Authentication, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Load Testing, Routing, Object-Oriented Software Development, Runbook, Software Engineering, Strategies of Testing, Concurrency, Caching, Backend, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Low Latency, Deployment Automation, Api Gateway
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/16769982C38E48C6911AE8ED24B82920/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
 * 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production backend or platform services.
 * Strong development experience in Java or another modern object-oriented language.
 * Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, and production operations.
 * Experience leading substantial technical initiatives across multiple engineers or teams.
 * Demonstrated ability to diagnose complex production issues and improve service reliability.
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills., * Experience with high-throughput, low-latency services, HTTP, networking, proxies, or API gateways.
 * Experience with authentication, authorization, TLS, certificates, private connectivity, or multi-tenant security.
 * Experience with throttling, load shedding, caching, and capacity planning.
 * Experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
 * Experience improving a broader engineering organization through mentoring, shared tooling, or technical standards.

Skills

 * Software Design and Development
 * Backend Programming Languages
 * Distributed Systems
 * System Design

## Description

Architecture and Delivery

 * Lead significant systems and initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, adoption, and production validation.
 * Translate scalability, security, reliability, and business requirements into clear technical designs and execution plans.
 * Make sound tradeoffs involving availability, consistency, latency, throughput, durability, cost, and operational complexity.
 * Design for partial failures, retries, duplicate requests, mixed-version deployments, dependency degradation, and regional disruption.
 * Write and review secure, maintainable, well-tested Java code.
 * Define service contracts, compatibility requirements, migration plans, validation strategies, and rollback criteria.

Scalability and Operational Excellence

 * Establish capacity models, performance objectives, scaling strategies, and load-testing plans for high-throughput services.
 * Design effective throttling, load shedding, backpressure, caching, concurrency, and failure-recovery mechanisms.
 * Define useful service indicators, objectives, metrics, alarms, dashboards, runbooks, and deployment safeguards.
 * Lead complex incident investigations and convert recurring failures or manual procedures into automation and preventive engineering improvements.
 * Serve as a technical escalation point for problems that cross application, infrastructure, network, or organizational boundaries.

Technical Leadership

 * Provide architectural direction in one or more critical areas such as routing, authentication, private connectivity, runtime performance, observability, or deployment infrastructure.
 * Decompose broad initiatives so multiple engineers can own meaningful work while maintaining architectural consistency.
 * Mentor engineers through design, code review, delivery, and incident response.
 * Raise engineering quality through reusable systems, tools, standards, and operational practices.
 * Contribute to hiring and help identify architectural investments, platform gaps, and reliability risks for the team roadmap.

Cross-Team Execution

 * Align SPLAT and partner teams on technical decisions, responsibilities, dependencies, and rollout plans.
 * Communicate complex designs, tradeoffs, risks, and progress clearly to engineers and leaders.
 * Make progress under ambiguity by separating facts, assumptions, reversible decisions, and external dependencies.
 * Adjust direction when production evidence or new technical information invalidates earlier assumptions.
 * Use modern development and AI-assisted tools responsibly to improve engineering quality and productivity.