Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Join OCI's Storage division as a Systems Engineer focused on designing, implementing, and optimizing components in distributed systems. You will partner with Product Management to define and deliver new capabilities, collaborate with senior architects, and operate a critical cloud service.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management to define and deliver new capabilities addressing evolving customer needs and shaping the future of OCI's file storage solutions.
• Collaborate with senior architects and engineering leaders to design, implement, and deliver scalable, high-performance storage solutions.
• Design, develop, and optimize new features for OCI's high-performance, distributed file storage platform.
• Operate and continuously improve a mission-critical Tier 1 cloud service, maintaining strict availability, performance, and reliability SLAs for our most strategic customers.
• Work closely with compute, networking, and other infrastructure teams to identify and implement opportunities to improve scalability, performance, efficiency, and operational excellence across OCI.
• Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing, helping them grow their skills and take on increasing ownership and responsibility.
• Drive engineering excellence by contributing to architecture discussions, code reviews, testing strategies, and operational best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in system design, architecture, and implementation in distributed systems.
• Experience with data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing.
• Proven track record of building fault-tolerant systems, applying recovery-oriented principles, and implementing retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
• Ability to proactively detect and mitigate issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry.
• Experience with automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance, and advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation).
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to independently identify and address standard and non-standard issues, and contribute to knowledge sharing and best practices.
• Experience with compliance and security measures in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
• Ability to apply advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, and implement remediation plans to continuously improve security.
• Experience with operational troubleshooting and incident management, including diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in system components.
• Experience with automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues, and participation in operational support rotations.
• Experience with change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.
• Experience with tracking timelines with minimal supervision, prioritizing and adjusting work as resources or timelines change.
• Experience collaborating across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives, and building and maintaining a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D, supplemental life insurance, health care and dependent care, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, 401(k) savings and investment plan with company match, paid time off, paid sick leave, adoption assistance, employee stock purchase plan, and voluntary benefits.

Pay

Hiring Range in USD: $79,200 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Schedule

Full-time position.