Senior Platform Software Engineer

Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join the PKI team responsible for building and operating cloud-scale Public Key Infrastructure services. In this role, you will design, develop, test, and deliver secure, highly available, and scalable software that manages certificates, cryptographic keys, and trust infrastructure across OCI.

You will work closely with senior engineers, security teams, and partner service teams to deliver new capabilities, improve reliability and operational excellence, and contribute to the evolution of OCI's security platform. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building distributed systems, an interest in applied cryptography and cloud security, and enjoys solving complex engineering challenges at cloud scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and operate highly available, secure, and scalable distributed services that power Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including certificate lifecycle management, key management, trust services, and cryptographic infrastructure.
• Own a bounded platform component (service module, SDK area) and evolve its contracts for multi-tenant use.
• Perform deep debugging across a limited-service graph; drive compatibility-safe remediation plans.
• Implement targeted resilience/capacity patterns and document adoption guidance for team consumers.
• Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently.
• Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
• Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements.
• Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues. Develops fixes for identified issues.
• Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead throughout the process.
• Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding.
• Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
• Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture.
• Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices.
• Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture.
• Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
• Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions.
• May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently.
• Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
• Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
• Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently.
• Investigate and troubleshoot complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).
• Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards.
• Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.
• Keeps up to date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
• Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.
• Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).
• Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities:

• Planning & Execution: Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements. Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.
• Collaboration & Partnership: Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.
• Problem Solving: Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.
• Continuous Learning: Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.
• Continuous Improvement: Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only.

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $92,500 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all