Oracle Corporation

Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Oracle Corporation$79K — $209K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6-8+ years in software engineering with experience in resilient production services.
  • 4+ years building distributed systems or control-plane platforms.
  • Proficient in Java for production service development and performance troubleshooting.
  • Ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools for process automation and code generation.
  • Strong API design skills, familiar with RESTful services and OpenAPI/Swagger.
  • Experience designing stateful workflows focusing on safety and reliability.
  • Solid knowledge of Linux, networking, and highly available distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement APIs for DNS zones and routing configurations.
  • Build reliable workflows for change orchestration and lifecycle management in DNS.
  • Develop production services in Java with automation support in Python.
  • Utilize AI tools for implementation and operational efficiency with robust controls.
  • Enhance operational resilience through advanced workflow practices.
  • Own observability metrics and operational readiness processes.
  • Collaborate with various teams for improved platform security and operations.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinions.
  • Short and long-term disability coverage.
  • Life insurance with additional options for dependents.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care.
  • 401(k) with company match and other financial planning services.
  • Generous paid time off policies, including flexible vacation.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan and various voluntary benefits.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement control-plane services and APIs for DNS zones, records, views, policies, and
    routing configuration.
  • Build reliable workflows for validation, change orchestration, propagation, reconciliation, and
    lifecycle management across distributed DNS infrastructure.
  • Develop production services and libraries primarily in Java, with supporting automation in Python where needed, and a strong focus on API design and correctness.
  • Use AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows to accelerate implementation, testing, incident investigation, and operational automation, with appropriate human review, security, and quality controls.
  • Improve safety and operational resilience through idempotent workflows, optimistic concurrency, audit-ability, rollback paths, canary releases, and feature flags.
  • Own observability and operational readiness: metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, run-books, capacity planning, and thoughtful on-call participation.
  • Partner with DNS data plane, security, networking, and SRE teams to deliver secure, end-to-end platform improvements.
  • Contribute technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and mentoring of other engineers.


Required Qualifications:
  • 6-8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and operating resilient production services.
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience building production-grade distributed systems, cloud services, and/or control-plane platforms.
  • Strong proficiency in Java, including production service development, concurrent programming, and performance troubleshooting.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to improve design, code generation, testing, troubleshooting, and process automation while maintaining strong engineering judgment.
  • Strong API design skills, including RESTful service design and OpenAPI/Swagger or comparable API contracts.
  • Experience designing reliable stateful workflows, including asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, concurrency control, and failure recovery.
  • Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and highly available distributed systems.
  • Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • DNS expertise, including authoritative DNS, zone and record management, DNS delegation, TTLs, DNSSEC, and DNS change propagation.
  • Experience with cloud control planes, resource lifecycle management, or multi-tenant platform APIs.
  • Knowledge of internet protocols and security standards, including DNS, TLS, HTTP, and REST.
  • Experience with relational or distributed data stores and schema evolution for highly available services.
  • Familiarity with modern CI/CD platforms such as OCI DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD, and engineering productivity tools including Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.
  • Experience operating mission-critical services in a 24/7 environment.


What Success Looks Like:
  • You deliver control-plane capabilities that make DNS changes safer, faster, and easier for customers and internal operators.
  • You improve the reliability, auditability, and operability of DNS configuration workflows at scale.
  • You raise engineering standards through pragmatic design, rigorous testing, and collaborative technical leadership.


Qualifications

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $79,200 to $209,500 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 insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC3

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Oracle Dyn Global Business Unit is a pioneer in managed DNS and a leader in cloud-based infrastructure that connects users with digital content and experiences across a global internet. Dyn's solution is powered by a global network that drives 40 billion traffic optimization decisions daily for more than 3,500 enterprise customers, including preeminent digital brands such as Netflix, Twitter, Linkedin and CNBC. Adding Dyn's best-in-class DNS and email services extend the Oracle cloud computing platform and provides enterprise customers with a one-stop shop for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). On January 31, 2017 Oracle completed the acquisition of Dyn, which now operates as an Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) global business unit (GBU).

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1977
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