Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, Data Center Telemetry & Automation

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds GPU platforms for demanding AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads. The Raw Metal Cloud (RMC) team develops the software that manages infrastructure from hardware onboarding and inventory through provisioning, validation, rack certification, and customer handoff. We are seeking a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and delivery of distributed services for data-center telemetry, device management, and hardware lifecycle automation. You will define how these services collect and interpret infrastructure signals, securely manage devices, and coordinate reliable remediation across a growing fleet. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will turn ambiguous requirements into practical architectures, lead initiatives spanning multiple services and teams, and remain directly involved in implementation and production operations. Your work will improve infrastructure readiness, reduce operational effort, and increase the predictability of GPU capacity delivery. Key responsibilities: - Lead architecture and implementation for telemetry ingestion, processing, storage, and integration with monitoring platforms. - Define service boundaries, APIs, data models, and integration patterns across heterogeneous infrastructure devices. - Design secure workflows for device onboarding, configuration, certificate lifecycle management, health assessment, and automated repair. - Establish approaches for distributed state management, retries, idempotency, backpressure, fault isolation, and recovery. - Define service reliability and performance goals; build the observability, validation, and deployment safeguards needed to meet them. - Lead complex production investigations and drive lasting improvements to service resilience and operational efficiency. - Partner with hardware, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to resolve dependencies and deliver capabilities across data-center deployments. - Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and improve engineering standards while contributing production code. Required qualifications: - Must be able & willing to work onsite in Nashville, TN. Relocation assistance available. - Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. - 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production distributed systems. - Strong hands-on development skills in Java, Python, or a comparable backend language. - Demonstrated experience designing and operating scalable, highly available services and APIs. - Strong understanding of concurrency, distributed state, asynchronous processing, failure recovery, and data consistency. - Experience designing data models and selecting storage approaches based on throughput, latency, retention, and reliability requirements. - Practical knowledge of Linux, networking, secure service communication, and authentication. - Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation and production delivery. - Strong technical judgment, cross-team communication, and experience mentoring engineers. Preferred qualifications: - Experience designing telemetry or observability platforms for large infrastructure fleets. - Familiarity with time-series systems, event-driven architectures, and high-volume device data processing. - Experience with ILOM, Redfish, gNMI, MQTT, or comparable hardware management technologies. - Experience designing PKI, mutual TLS, and automated certificate provisioning and rotation. - Knowledge of data-center power, thermal, and cooling infrastructure or GPU hardware lifecycle management. - Experience building safe automated remediation, workflow orchestration, and device management systems. - Experience with OCI or another cloud platform and operational tools built with React and TypeScript. #LI-JO2 Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. 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. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.