Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN, is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to design, build, and operate backend platform components, APIs, and SDKs for OCI services. You will own a defined platform area, evolve contracts and interoperability for secure, multi-tenant use, and help teams adopt platform capabilities.

You will diagnose complex issues across distributed services, improve availability and performance, and collaborate with OCI engineers to guide design decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software-development experience; advanced degree holders may have fewer years of experience.
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
• Experience designing and building backend services, APIs, microservices, SDKs, or developer-facing platform capabilities.
• Understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and secure software-development practices.
• Experience with API design, integration, versioning, testing, source control, and production troubleshooting.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with a demonstrated sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate backend platform components, APIs, SDKs, and integration frameworks used by OCI services and customers.
• Own a defined platform area and evolve its contracts, versioning, and interoperability for secure, multi-tenant use.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues across a bounded set of distributed services; deliver compatibility-safe fixes and clear upgrade paths.
• Improve availability, performance, capacity, and operability through targeted resilience patterns, monitoring, logging, and automation.
• Partner with engineers across OCI to understand consumer needs, review designs and code, and guide adoption of platform capabilities.
• Create high-quality technical documentation, samples, and operational guidance for platform consumers.
• Participate in service support and continuous-improvement efforts, including incident investigation and root-cause follow-up.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

API design

Java/C++/C#/Go

Documentation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Git

Containers

Job description

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN, is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to design, build, and operate backend platform components, APIs, and SDKs for OCI services. You will own a defined platform area, evolve contracts and interoperability for secure, multi-tenant use, and help teams adopt platform capabilities.

You will diagnose complex issues across distributed services, improve availability and performance, and collaborate with OCI engineers to guide design decisions.