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Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

Location
Onsite (Nashville, TN)
Compensation
$79k - $209k/yr
Employment
Full-time
Level
Mid Level
Posted 1 week ago

About the Role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute is seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate core virtualization and host-side systems for OCI VMs. The role focuses on evolving critical dataplane components to ensure performance, reliability, and security at scale.

Skills

Oracle Linux Virtualization QEMU KVM Cloud infrastructure Distributed systems Systems engineering Performance tuning Security isolation Dataplane development Linux fundamentals Software engineering Scalability High availability Infrastructure automation

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid parental leave

Perks

  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid volunteering

Full job details

Department Description:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute delivers secure, high-performance Virtual Machines for customers worldwide. The Virtual Machine Dataplane team builds and operates the core virtualization and host-side systems that power OCI VMs at scale. We work deeply in Oracle Linux and the virtualization stack (QEMU/KVM), focusing on performance, reliability, security isolation, and operational excellence in a multi-tenant cloud.
 

Position Overview:
We’re looking for hands-on engineers with deep systems expertise and a passion for building reliable virtualization platforms. As an ideal candidate, you will have designed and implemented large-scale services and/or low-level systems in a distributed cloud environment. You will combine strong Linux fundamentals with software engineering skills to build, troubleshoot, and evolve critical dataplane components. You will champion best practices in engineering, testing, security, and operations to deliver scalable, highly available VM infrastructure.


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