Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Backend & APIs

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 93,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build platform capabilities—APIs, SDKs, and tooling—that make OCI services easier and safer for engineers and customers to use. This role is office-based with onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee.

You will own a platform area, evolve contracts and versioning, diagnose complex distributed-service issues, and contribute to resilience, observability, and automation. Relocation support may be available per policy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or 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 (e.g., 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, OO design, and secure software practices.
• Experience with API design, integration, versioning, testing, source control, and production troubleshooting.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with demonstrated 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 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 services

APIs design

Distributed systems

Java

C++

Go

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build platform capabilities—APIs, SDKs, and tooling—that make OCI services easier and safer for engineers and customers to use. This role is office-based with onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee.

You will own a platform area, evolve contracts and versioning, diagnose complex distributed-service issues, and contribute to resilience, observability, and automation. Relocation support may be available per policy.