Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$114,600–$234,600from the description
Aug 10, 2026
Nashville, TN
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a senior individual-contributor engineering role on an OCI incubation team building a new cloud-scale platform that spans low-level execution runtimes, application lifecycle management, and change-management workflows. The work centers on designing, implementing, and operating highly distributed, fault-tolerant systems — including replication mechanisms, resilience controls, observability pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tooling — intended to underpin OCI services at hyperscale. Strong candidates will have deep experience in distributed systems architecture, reliability engineering, and production operations at large scale.
Senior level · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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 Aug 11, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting carries the internal level 'IC4', which at Oracle typically corresponds to a Senior individual contributor; the job title itself is unlabeled, so advertised seniority is set to Unspecified.
No specific programming languages, databases, or named infrastructure tools (e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka) are called out anywhere in the posting — all requirements are stated in terms of capabilities and system properties rather than named technologies. The skills list therefore reflects the concrete technical domains the JD gates on rather than specific products.
The role is described as in-office/on-site by implication (no remote language present), but the posting does not explicitly state either; remote is set to false as a conservative default.
Compensation range ($114,600–$234,600/year) is explicitly stated as covering broad variation in experience, location, and market conditions — the wide band reflects Oracle's standard practice rather than a narrower target range for this specific role.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): fault injection / failure simulation testing, load shedding / rate limiting / backpressure, data replication and synchronization.
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