Senior Platform Software Engineer

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical cloud services for leading enterprises around the world. OCI provides hyper‑scale, multi‑tenant services across a global cloud footprint and continues to expand across dedicated, hybrid, multicloud, edge, data, and AI capabilities. We are seeking a Software Developer 3 to help build and operate AI and cloud platform capabilities supporting a strategic enterprise customer engagement. The team is developing an initial capability for a large customer and evolving it into a reusable OCI platform offering. In this role, you will work with experienced engineers, product management, and customer‑facing teams to deliver reliable software, learn the customer’s technical needs, and contribute to rapid product iteration. You will develop production‑quality components while building depth in cloud platforms, data systems, IoT, or AI technologies.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for AI and cloud platform services.
• Implement backend services, APIs, integrations, automation, data‑processing components, and operational tooling.
• Work with engineers and product managers to understand requirements and translate customer scenarios into software features.
• Contribute to rapid iteration by investigating customer feedback, troubleshooting issues, and improving product functionality.
• Write clean, maintainable, secure, and well‑tested code following established engineering practices.
• Build unit, integration, and functional tests; participate in performance and resilience testing.
• Add logging, metrics, telemetry, health checks, and alerts to improve service observability.
• Help investigate, debug, and resolve service issues in development and production environments.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and engineering‑planning activities.
• Automate repeatable operational tasks, deployment workflows, configuration, and testing.
• Learn and apply OCI standards for reliability, security, availability, and operational readiness.

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of professional software‑development experience, including experience delivering production software or services.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, C#, or similar.
• Experience developing backend applications, distributed‑system components, cloud‑native services, or data‑processing applications.
• Ability to independently deliver well‑scoped features and components, with guidance on broader technical design and prioritization.
• Experience working collaboratively in an Agile or iterative software‑development environment.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn rapidly from customers, product managers, and senior engineers.
• Exposure to one or more of the following areas:
• Data engineering or data platforms, including ingestion, processing, storage, or pipelines
• IoT, device connectivity, telemetry, or edge‑to‑cloud systems
• AI/ML platforms, model training, model serving, RAG, evaluation harnesses, AI agents, or MCP
• Familiarity with REST APIs, source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, or cloud services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Software Development

• Implement features and services from defined technical requirements and designs.
• Develop maintainable code, APIs, integrations, and automated tests.
• Debug defects and improve performance, reliability, and usability of owned components.
• Participate in code reviews and apply feedback to improve technical quality.

Customer‑Focused Delivery

• Support the team in understanding customer workflows and technical requirements.
• Help turn customer feedback into actionable engineering tasks and product improvements.
• Contribute to fast, iterative delivery while maintaining quality and engineering discipline.
• Learn the domain and help identify opportunities to make solutions more reusable across customers.

Reliability & Operations

• Add monitoring, logging, and telemetry to owned components.
• Assist with service troubleshooting, incident investigation, and root‑cause analysis.
• Follow operational procedures and contribute to runbooks and support documentation.
• Help improve automation for deployments, testing, and routine operational tasks.

Security & Collaboration

• Follow secure‑development practices and OCI engineering standards.
• Work effectively with engineers, product managers, operations, security, and customer‑facing teams.
• Communicate progress, risks, and technical questions clearly and promptly.
• Pursue ongoing learning in cloud, data, IoT, and AI technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or another cloud platform.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, distributed data systems, or event‑driven architectures.
• Exposure to generative AI, RAG, AI agents, MCP, or enterprise AI integrations.
• Experience supporting enterprise applications, scientific/research workloads, IoT systems, or internal platform services.

Qualifications

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 - $209,500 per year. 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&DD
• 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.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

About Us

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life‑saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

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