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.

Preferred qualifications (Nice to have)

Experience with C or C++.
Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, containerization, and deploying or operating containerized services.
Experience with P4 programming and programmable data-plane concepts.
Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Wireshark, tcpdump, and similar observability or packet-capture tools.
Experience with DPDK or high-performance packet processing.
Knowledge of DPUs/IPUs and network offload technologies, such as NVIDIA BlueField or AMD Pensando.
Experience building or operating highly available services in a public-cloud environment.

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.

Key Responsibilities

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.

Career Level - IC3

Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer