Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud & Bioinformatics

Oracle; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle in London/Reading seeks a software engineer to build production-quality components for cloud platform services in bioinformatics and computational life sciences. You will work on backend APIs, data ingestion, and workflow integrations, collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate customer needs into features.

The role requires 3+ years of experience, strong skills in Java/Go/Python, and familiarity with cloud-native architectures and OCI.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Bioinformatics or computational life sciences domain awareness.
• Understanding of scientific computing workflows and large datasets.
• Experience with backend services and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for cloud platform services.
• Implement backend services, APIs, data-ingestion and processing components, workflow integrations.
• Work with engineers and product managers to translate customer scenarios into well-defined features.
• Contribute to rapid iteration by investigating customer feedback, troubleshooting issues, and improving product functionality.
• Write clean, secure, and well-tested code following OCI 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 tasks related to deployment, configuration, testing, and service operations.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

REST APIs

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Oracle Cloud (OCI)

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Oracle in London/Reading seeks a software engineer to build production-quality components for cloud platform services in bioinformatics and computational life sciences. You will work on backend APIs, data ingestion, and workflow integrations, collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate customer needs into features.

The role requires 3+ years of experience, strong skills in Java/Go/Python, and familiarity with cloud-native architectures and OCI.