Senior Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure

We are seeking a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer to join our DNS Data Plane team. You will design, build, and operate high-performance, highly reliable DNS services that power critical infrastructure at a global scale. This role focuses on performance-sensitive systems, distributed networking, and operational excellence, balancing correctness, latency, and resiliency.

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: $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

• Design and implement DNS data plane components across authoritative and recursive request paths, emphasizing low-latency, high-throughput processing.
• Build services and libraries in Go, C, Java, or Python, selecting the appropriate language and approach for each component’s performance and operational requirements.
• Optimize CPU, memory, and network I/O through efficient event loops, concurrency models, socket tuning, profiling, and benchmarking.
• Own data plane components end to end, including architecture, implementation, testing, safe rollout, observability, capacity planning, and ongoing operational health.
• Develop and maintain metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and practical on-call playbooks.
• Improve reliability through fault-tolerant design, graceful degradation, safe deployment practices, and proactive capacity planning.
• Collaborate with control plane, security, SRE, and operations teams to deliver end-to-end DNS platform improvements.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentorship, raising engineering standards across the team.
• Take ownership of production outcomes by proactively identifying and driving performance, reliability, security, and operational improvements.

Required Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of experience building, managing, or operating large-scale distributed infrastructure in SaaS, cloud, or hybrid-cloud environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Linux operating systems.
• Strong experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems or network services.
• Proficiency in one or more of Go, C, Java, or Python, with the ability and interest to work across languages when needed.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, TCP/UDP, sockets, concurrency, and performance profiling.
• Demonstrated experience designing highly available systems and delivering safe production rollouts using practices such as canaries, progressive deployments, and feature flags.
• Strong ownership and sound technical judgment, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive complex problems to durable resolution.

Desired Skills

• Deep DNS knowledge, including relevant RFCs, DNS over UDP and TCP, EDNS(0), DNSSEC, caching behavior, zone transfers, rate limiting, and load balancing.
• Experience with high-performance systems patterns such as epoll/kqueue, asynchronous I/O, low-lock or lock-free data structures, and packet processing.
• Familiarity with DDoS mitigation, abuse prevention, and traffic engineering for L4 and L7 services.
• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, including service meshes and network policies where relevant.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, particularly with Terraform.
• Strong testing discipline, including unit, integration, fuzz, property-based, performance, and chaos testing.
• Experience operating mission-critical, 24/7 services.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while maintaining strong engineering judgment, ownership, code quality, and security standards.

What Success Looks Like

• You deliver measurable improvements in latency, throughput, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• You take end-to-end ownership of the systems you build, from initial design through long-term production health.
• You evolve the DNS platform through clean architecture, strong operational readiness, and secure-by-design practices.
• You identify risks and opportunities early and drive pragmatic improvements beyond the immediate task.
• You raise team standards through mentorship, thoughtful technical leadership, and a culture of operational excellence.