Senior Member Technical Staff

Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a Senior Member of Technical Staff and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of cloud computing. In this role, you will lead the design, software development, and operation of compute operability solutions, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of OCI’s compute infrastructure. You’ll work with a team of innovative engineers to build and operate massive-scale, integrated cloud services that power businesses and organizations worldwide.   

As a software engineer on the OCI Compute team, you will focus on enhancing the operability of our compute services, driving automation, and optimizing system reliability. Your work will directly impact the performance of mission-critical workloads for Oracle’s global customers, solving complex challenges in distributed systems, high-availability computing, and operational excellence.   

Major focus areas of software maintained by the team include:    

• Creating and maintaining highly available APIs for launching and managing Compute resources.
• Designing and implementing highly scalable systems capable of functioning across numerous regions in a worldwide cloud footprint.
• Building systems for orchestrating large-scale fleet management actions Decomposing large, monolithic codebases 
• Using AI to increase developer efficiency 

A key focus of this job will be to explore the usage of AI for the Compute organization. We are early in our journey of leveraging AI and we are looking for engineers that are excited about the opportunities AI will bring. You will participate in exploring where we can best leverage AI to make our organization more efficient and effective. 

  

This position is expected to be onsite full time in Nashville, TN. This is not a remote position.

Responsibilities  

    •    Design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance compute operability solutions for OCI.  

    •    Develop tools, frameworks, and automation to enhance the operational efficiency of compute infrastructure.  

    •    Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in large-scale distributed systems.  

    •    Drive the adoption of best practices for system reliability, performance tuning, and operational excellence.  

    •    Mentor junior engineers  

    •    Innovate to improve system availability, reduce latency, and optimize resource utilization.  

    •    Participate in on-call rotations to ensure 24/7 service reliability.  

Qualifications  

    •    Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.  

    •    3+ years of experience in software engineering  

    •    Expertise in compute operability, including virtualization, containerization, or orchestration technologies (e.g., KVM, Docker, Kubernetes).  

    •    Strong programming skills in languages such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.  

    •    Strong data analysis experience and proficiency in SQL  

    •    Experience with large-scale system design, automation, and operational tools (e.g., Grafana, Terraform, Prometheus).  

    •    Familiarity with cloud computing concepts, including IaaS, PaaS, or serverless architectures.  

    •    Excellent problem-solving skills and a track record of resolving technical challenges.  

    •    Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a globally distributed team.  

Preferred Qualifications  

    •    Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.  

    •    Contributions to open-source projects or a strong portfolio of technical innovation.  

    •    Experience with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, ELK stack) and incident management processes.  

    •    Background in building automation for zero-downtime deployments or self-healing systems.  

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $79,200 to $178,100 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 in