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  • Oracle
  • Nashville, TN
  • Full-Time
  • 91 days ago
  • $79,200–$209,500
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Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer.

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Full-Time

Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This role is for a senior engineer building and operating virtualization infrastructure for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute.
  • The Person:The person will build, troubleshoot, and evolve core virtualization and host-side systems for OCI VMs while focusing on performance, reliability, security isolation, and operations.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has strong Linux fundamentals and experience with Oracle Linux, QEMU and KVM.

About the role

Department Description:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute delivers secure, high-performance Virtual Machines for customers worldwide. The Virtual Machine Dataplane team builds and operates the core virtualization and host-side systems that power OCI VMs at scale. We work deeply in Oracle Linux and the virtualization stack (QEMU/KVM), focusing on performance, reliability, security isolation, and operational excellence in a multi-tenant cloud.
 

Position Overview:
We’re looking for hands-on engineers with deep systems expertise and a passion for building reliable virtualization platforms. As an ideal candidate, you will have designed and implemented large-scale services and/or low-level systems in a distributed cloud environment. You will combine strong Linux fundamentals with software engineering skills to build, troubleshoot, and evolve critical dataplane components. You will champion best practices in engineering, testing, security, and operations to deliver scalable, highly available VM infrastructure.

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Published August 17, 2026
Location Nashville, TN
Job Type Full-Time