Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer
Oracle · Nashville, TN
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Jul 22, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior distributed systems engineering role focused on architecting and building large-scale, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure. Day-to-day work spans designing for high throughput and elastic scaling, establishing reliability telemetry and SLOs, hardening security and compliance, and developing infrastructure-as-code automation. The role also involves incident response, mentoring peers, and contributing to hiring — suited to engineers with deep experience delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Senior level · 7+ years · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (9)
No work location is specified in the posting; Oracle is a US-headquartered company and the role appears US-based, but no city, state, or remote status is stated — location fields left blank.
The role title is not given; the posting describes a senior individual-contributor engineer leading architecture of distributed systems at Oracle Cloud scale, consistent with a Senior Software Developer band.
Total years minimum is set to 7, the lowest qualifying threshold (Bachelor's + 7 years); the posting also accepts 11 years with no degree, 5 years with a Master's, or 3 years with a Doctorate — equivalent experience is explicitly accepted in lieu of a degree, so the degree requirement is None.
Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud) are listed under Minimum Qualifications with a 3-year requirement; the specific platforms are named as examples, so they are captured as preferred alternatives under the required cloud-platforms skill.
Testing and automation (5 years) and distributed systems (4 years) are hard-gated in the Minimum Qualifications section.
The Preferred Qualifications section largely mirrors the Minimum Qualifications education/experience table and adds only '1 year of experience with cloud platforms' under a 'People Leadership / Management Experience' heading — this appears to be a mislabeled field in the posting template rather than a genuine management requirement; no people-management duties are described in the responsibilities.
Skills such as 'Data Analysis', 'Quality Assurance', 'Code Review', 'Software Estimation', 'Embedded Systems', and 'User Experience Development' appear in the Job Skills block but name no specific technology or tool and are omitted per extraction rules.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily software development (building distributed systems, IaC, automation), but the heavy operational/SRE emphasis (incident response, SLOs, telemetry, change management) introduces some ambiguity with 15-1244.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): testing and automation.
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