Senior Software Developer

Software Development Engineer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is building cloud services that help customers run mission-critical workloads at global scale. The OCI Queue team delivers a serverless messaging service that enables asynchronous communication between distributed applications, helping customers decouple systems, absorb workload spikes, and process messages reliably.

We are seeking an IC3 Software Development Engineer to help build and operate OCI Queue. You will work on customer-facing features and backend service components across queue management, message processing, service APIs, automation, monitoring, and production operations.

In this role, you will contribute to a highly available distributed service and gain deep experience in cloud infrastructure. You will work with experienced engineers to solve problems in scalability, reliability, latency, durability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence. You will have meaningful ownership of features from implementation through deployment and production support.

This role is a great fit for an engineer who enjoys backend systems, distributed systems, and cloud services. You should be excited to write reliable code, understand how services behave in production, improve existing systems, and deliver features that make OCI Queue easier, safer, and more reliable for customers.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, deploy, and operate features for OCI Queue.
• Contribute to backend services, APIs, automation, and operational tooling.
• Improve message processing, queue lifecycle management, visibility timeout handling, batching, channels, and dead-letter queue capabilities.
• Work with senior engineers to design scalable and reliable distributed systems.
• Improve service performance, availability, observability, and maintainability.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, testing, and operational readiness reviews.
• Investigate production issues and implement durable fixes.
• Create and maintain dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and automation for service operations.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, SRE, security, and partner OCI teams.
• Deliver high-quality software that improves customer experience and service reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing cloud-native applications or distributed services.
• Familiarity with messaging or streaming technologies such as Oracle Queue, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Pulsar, JMS, or similar messaging systems.
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards).
• Understanding of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and supporting production systems.
• Passion for building reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure that delivers an exceptional customer experience.

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: $89,200 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 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• 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 – IC3

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