Senior Core Infrastructure Software Engineer at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$92,500–$209,500from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building and operating distributed cloud infrastructure and agentic AI systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Day-to-day work spans designing scalable services, optimizing for high throughput and low latency, managing production incidents, and implementing observability and security controls for multi-tenant environments. Best suited to engineers with hands-on distributed systems experience who also have practical exposure to AI/ML platform development.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posted experience range is '3-7+ years', which anchors the minimum at 3 years — consistent with a Mid-level role despite the 'Senior' title. The very wide salary band ($92,500–$209,500) reflects Oracle's practice of spanning multiple internal levels under one posting.
Degree requirement lists Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. but explicitly accepts 'equivalent practical experience', so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Java, Golang, and Python are listed together as a single 'strong programming skills in X or Y or Z' requirement; Java is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud) appears under Preferred Qualifications, so OCI is marked preferred with the other hyperscalers as alternatives.
LLM application patterns (prompt design, RAG, memory, tool safety, evaluation) and AI orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, etc.) are explicitly under Preferred Qualifications.
AI-assisted development tools (Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) are listed under Preferred Qualifications.
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