Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

At OCI, we’re building the future of enterprise cloud. Our team designs and operates Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technologies at global scale across a multi-tenant cloud environment. We combine the agility of a startup with the resources and stability of one of the world’s largest enterprise software companies.

The Storage Service team is developing the next-generation storage platform to deliver low-latency, high-throughput, and highly available storage systems across 100+ global regions. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide customers with industry-leading compute, storage, networking, database, and security capabilities.

We’re looking for a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer who is excited by challenges in distributed systems, cloud-scale storage, data replication, and performance optimization. If you’re passionate about building reliable, massively scalable services, this is the place for you.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape the core architecture of Oracle’s next-generation storage platform.
• A high-ownership environment with visibility across OCI leadership and broad technical impact.
• A culture of engineering excellence with opportunities for mentorship, innovation, and career growth.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop core components of the OCI Storage and Data Management Service, focusing on scalability, performance, and durability.
• Build and optimize distributed storage systems that ensure data consistency, availability, and low-latency access.
• Dive deep into the software stack—from I/O path performance to metadata consistency and replication.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment to deliver high-quality features.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize systems for performance and reliability.

Preferred Qualification:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience designing and delivering large-scale storage or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in C, C++ and Java, with solid understanding of object-oriented design principles.
• Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Expertise in filesystems, storage systems, and distributed persistence technologies.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and performance-tuning skills.
• Prior cloud infrastructure experience is a plus.