Core Infrastructure Engineer 2

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.

Design, develop, test, and operate IaaS components and deployment workflows for OCI networking services.

Build and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure and deployment automation.

Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable, and safe software delivery.

Automate operational workflows using Python and Linux-based tooling.

Partner with dataplane, platform, and service teams to deliver highly available distributed systems.

Improve service observability through metrics, dashboards, alerts, and logging.

Investigate and resolve production issues involving deployments, infrastructure, network behavior, and service reliability.

Work with and understand end-to-end packet-processing paths in virtualized cloud-networking environments.

Contribute to AI-assisted or agentic automation where it improves engineering productivity, operations, or service intelligence.