Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Salary: $92,500 - 209,500 per year Requirements:

• We require a bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• We typically look for 4+ years of professional software development experience, with fewer years considered for advanced degree holders.
• We need proficiency in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
• We seek experience designing and delivering backend services, APIs, microservices, SDKs, or developer-focused platform capabilities.
• We value understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and secure software development practices.
• We look for experience with API design, integration, versioning, testing, source control, and troubleshooting in production.
• We want strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills.
• Preferred experience includes building highly available, scalable cloud services or platform products.
• Preferred experience includes RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native deployment, observability, or service reliability engineering.
• Familiarity with database technologies and multi-tenant service design is a plus.
• Experience creating technical documentation, examples, or adoption guidance for other engineers is preferred.

• We design, build, test, and operate backend platform components, APIs, SDKs, and integration frameworks used by OCI services and customers.
• We own a defined platform area and evolve its contracts, versioning, and interoperability for secure, multi-tenant usage.
• We diagnose and resolve complex issues across a bounded set of distributed services, delivering compatibility-safe fixes and clear upgrade paths.
• We improve availability, performance, capacity, and operability through resilience patterns, monitoring, logging, and automation.
• We partner with engineers across OCI to understand consumer needs, review designs and code, and support adoption of platform capabilities.
• We create high-quality technical documentation, samples, and operational guidance for platform consumers.
• We participate in service support and continuous improvement, including incident investigation and root-cause follow-up.

• API
• Backend
• C#
• Cloud
• Support
• Java
• Oracle
• microservices
• DevOps

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We are Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), delivering mission-critical applications for leading enterprises worldwide through hyperscale, multi-tenant cloud services across more than 50 regions globally. Our platform continues to expand beyond traditional public-cloud boundaries to support dedicated, hybrid, and multicloud solutions, edge computing, and more. This Senior Platform Software Engineer role is office-based and requires onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee, with relocation assistance potentially available in line with our relocation policies. We also offer a comprehensive US benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, disability and life insurance, savings and investment options, paid time off, paid holidays, paid sick leave, parental leave, adoption assistance, and additional voluntary and financial benefits. The hiring range in the US is $92,500 to $209,500 per year, and the role may be eligible for bonus and equity.

last updated 42 week of 2026