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.