Senior Platform Engineer — Robotics & AI Cloud

Oracle; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible medical benefits

Life insurance

Retirement options

Volunteer programs

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer in the United Kingdom to lead design, development, and deployment of cloud platform services. You will collaborate with scientists, hardware engineers, and AI specialists to translate prototypes into reliable platforms.

Responsibilities include backend service development, data-processing components, and automation. You will own features end-to-end, from design through operations, with a focus on reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• Seven-figure impact platform software delivery across cloud services.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, or Python with production experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms and containerized architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud platform services.
• Implement backend services, APIs, data ingestion, and automation.
• Translate customer scenarios into well-defined software features.
• Improve product functionality through customer feedback and troubleshooting.
• Write secure, well-tested code following OCI engineering practices.
• Build tests and participate in performance and resilience testing.
• Add logging, metrics, telemetry, and alerts for observability.
• Assist in deployment automation and on-call incident response.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and documentation.
• Contribute to runbooks and operational tooling.

Skills

Programming in Java Go Python

REST APIs

Cloud-native services

Agile software development

Observability & monitoring

On-call reliability

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Experience with Slurm HPC environments

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Nextflow

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer in the United Kingdom to lead design, development, and deployment of cloud platform services. You will collaborate with scientists, hardware engineers, and AI specialists to translate prototypes into reliable platforms.

Responsibilities include backend service development, data-processing components, and automation. You will own features end-to-end, from design through operations, with a focus on reliability and observability.