Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds foundational Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies for a large-scale, distributed, multi-tenant cloud. Our customers rely on OCI to run critical workloads, and our mission is to provide secure, highly available, and high-performance cloud infrastructure.
The Virtual Cloud Networking (VCN) Dataplane team builds and operates the software-defined networking stack that powers OCI virtual networks and connectivity services. We deliver predictable performance, strong isolation, and high availability at cloud scale.
As a Software Engineer on the VCN Dataplane team, you will build and evolve the infrastructure, deployment automation, and operational systems that support our networking services. You will work across infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, distributed systems, observability, and network-focused services to deliver reliable production capabilities.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure automation, or IaaS service development.
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and deployment.
- Experience designing, implementing, or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency with Linux and Python automation.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, UDP, routing, packet flows, and network troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with the end-to-end packet-processing path, including packet reception, classification, processing, forwarding, filtering, and observability.
- Ability to troubleshoot network and service issues using packet captures, flow logs, system logs, metrics, and dashboards.
- Understanding of distributed systems, service reliability, and production operations.
Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering teams.
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Preferred qualifications (Nice to have)
Level Consideration
Candidates with more extensive experience and demonstrated technical depth may be considered for a higher-level engineering position, including Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer, based on experience level, interview evaluation, role fit, and business needs.
