As a Core Infrastructure Engineer, you will design and deliver major features while leveraging AI to improve engineering productivity, operational excellence, and business outcomes. You will build secure, scalable, and maintainable systems, lead feature and subsystem design, and ensure operational readiness through automation, observability, and AI-assisted workflows.

You will work independently on complex projects, collaborate across teams, drive root cause analysis, and identify opportunities to use AI for improving development, testing, troubleshooting, operational efficiency, and customer experience. A key expectation of the role is to use AI-driven insights and automation to reduce operational overhead, improve service reliability, accelerate delivery, and minimize technical debt while delivering scalable, customer-focused solutions.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer's business critical applications.

Who are we looking for

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building next-generation cloud security and compliance solutions, and we're looking for skilled Software Engineers to join our Cloud Guard / Assurance Service team. Be part of our mission to create the most secure cloud environment. In this pivotal, hands-on engineering role, you will architect and develop scalable, innovative solutions that ensure OCI resources start secure and remain secure. You'll also build automated mechanisms for compliance reporting, control deployment, and exception management. You'll work closely with top engineers, product managers, and security teams to deliver features that strengthen OCI's security posture and provide a unified, single-pane-of-glass experience for both detective and preventive controls.

We are looking for engineers with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You've operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You work on most projects and tasks independently. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances, but have to abide by compliance and regulations.

The ideal candidate will own the software design and development for major components of Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure. You should be both a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and low-level systems, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

What are the biggest challenges for the team

The biggest challenges for the team are reliability, performance and keep up in cybersecurity space. The dynamic and fast growth of the business is driving us to improve the ability of our systems to scale out and handle traffic patterns with full coverage that are several orders of magnitude greater than what we can support today.

We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution.

We need engineers who can build services that can reliably protect our customer cloud environment. We need engineers who can figure out how we can keep up our solution in a fast pace to securely protect our customers. We need engineers who can build services that enable us to offer even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Cloud.

Required Qualifications

.4+ years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment

.Experience driving feature design reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers through the entire launch process

.Strong development experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar OO languages

.Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals

.Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures

.Good understanding of databases, SQL, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies

.Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus

Preferred Qualifications

.Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)

.Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules

.Expertise in applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques to develop security solutions

.Experience and understanding of Cryptograph, DDoS, CVE, CIS, SAST, DAST, or similar security and compliance knowledge

Career Level - IC3

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