Senior Platform Software Engineer (Container Orchestration, Java EE)

hackajob is collaborating with Oracle to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. About the team Application Performance Monitoring Engineer -Development We are seeking a software engineer to build and evolve Oracle APM Agent, OpenTelemetry Agent, OpenTelemetry Operator, and APM Synthetics capabilities. This role helps customers proactively monitor the availability, performance, and reliability of their applications, APIs, infrastructure, and critical user journeys. Description You will work across monitoring agents, synthetic monitoring side agents, REST/API monitors, backend services, configuration management, operational tooling, cloud infrastructure, and user interfaces. The platform must provide secure, dependable telemetry collection and monitor execution at scale, with a strong focus on customer experience, reliability, and operational excellence. Responsibilities Responsibilities Develop and maintain Oracle APM Agents, OpenTelemetry-based agents, OpenTelemetry Operator integrations, and APM Synthetics side agents. Build and enhance browser, scripted, and REST/API synthetic monitoring capabilities, including scheduling, authentication, assertions, response validation, retries, and execution-result reporting. Develop Java microservices and APIs for configuring, scheduling, executing, and managing agents, synthetic monitors, monitor locations, and related platform capabilities. Build and evolve configuration-management systems for agents, monitors, credentials, policies, software versions, and runtime settings. Design secure and resilient agent lifecycle capabilities, including installation, registration, configuration delivery, upgrades, health reporting, and diagnostics. Develop UI experiences for creating and managing monitors, viewing monitor health and results, troubleshooting failures, configuring alerts, and exploring synthetic telemetry. Build operational tooling, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks that enable efficient support and reliable operation of the platform. Investigate and resolve production issues across agent connectivity, monitor execution, configuration propagation, APIs, telemetry ingestion, and customer environments. Integrate synthetic and agent telemetry with the broader APM platform, including traces, metrics, logs, alerts, service monitoring, and incident workflows. Contribute to OCI Log Analytics integrations for operational logs, synthetic-monitoring diagnostics, analytics, and troubleshooting. Deploy and operate cloud-native services using OCI services, including Kubernetes/OKE, OCI Streaming, and observability services. Use modern AI-assisted engineering tools, including Codex and related developer tools, to improve development velocity, testing, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency. Improve reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency across the platform. Qualifications Strong Java software-engineering experience, particularly with distributed microservices and backend APIs. Experience building or operating agents, monitoring platforms, observability systems, automation frameworks, or distributed systems. Experience with REST APIs, protocols, authentication methods, TLS/security concepts, and API testing or monitoring. Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, telemetry collection, instrumentation, traces, metrics, logs, and modern observability data models. Experience with configuration management, remote agent deployment, fleet management, or agent lifecycle operations. Experience developing user interfaces for configuration, monitoring, diagnostics, or operational workflows. Strong operational mindset, including production troubleshooting, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Knowledge of OCI services, particularly Kubernetes/OKE, OCI Streaming, and OCI observability services. Familiarity with OCI Log Analytics or similar log analytics and observability platforms. Familiarity with Codex and other AI-assisted development tools, with an ability to apply them thoughtfully to engineering workflows. Ability to work effectively across agents, backend services, APIs, UI development, configuration systems, infrastructure, and customer-facing technical problem solving. Qualifications 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: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. 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 other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. Career Level - IC3aa415a4b-8b21-40fc-a65c-70d2b25ca29a