Senior Platform Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with match

Paid time off

On-site amenities

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville, TN, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve cloud-native services and SDKs. You will lead design reviews, write robust code, and drive reliability across distributed systems.

The role requires strong Java/Go/C++/Python skills, experience with microservices, REST APIs, CI/CD, and cloud concepts. You will mentor engineers and contribute to operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, Python.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
• Knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming.
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.
• Understanding of system security, authentication protocols, and compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, PCI DSS).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native services and microservices.
• Build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Participate in software design reviews and contribute to technical discussions.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations.
• Analyze system performance and implement improvements for scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product Management, and partner engineering teams.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.
• Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and documentation.
• Continuously improve engineering practices, tooling, and development processes.

Skills

Java

Go

C++

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring tools

Job description

Job Description

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

Job Description

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native services and microservices.
• Build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Participate in software design reviews and contribute to technical discussions.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations.
• Analyze system performance and implement improvements for scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product Management, and partner engineering teams.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.
• Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and documentation.
• Continuously improve engineering practices, tooling, and development processes.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar language.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
• Knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming.
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.
• Understanding of system security, authentication protocols, and compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, PCI DSS).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.
• Experience operating production cloud services.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Experience with applied crytography.

Expectations

As Senior Platform Engineer you would be responsible for:

Technical Execution

• Independently deliver medium-sized features and enhancements.
• Break down problems into manageable technical tasks.
• Produce clean, maintainable, and production-ready code.
• Identify and fix production issues with minimal guidance.

Ownership

• Own one or more service components.
• Drive features from design through deployment.
• Take responsibility for operational health of owned components.
• Participate in incident response and postmortem activities.

Collaboration

• Work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Participate actively in design and code reviews.
• Mentor interns and junior engineers on day-to-day engineering practices.

Operational Excellence

• Build automation to reduce operational toil.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and service reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production support.
• Continuously improve service availability and performance.

Success Indicators

A successful Senior Platform Engineer consistently:

• Delivers high-quality features on schedule.
• Demonstrates ownership of production services.
• Writes reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Makes sound technical decisions with limited supervision.
• Resolves production issues efficiently.
• Contributes positively to team engineering culture.
• Earns trust through technical competence and execution.

Qualifications

Disclaimer

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.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• 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.

Career Level - IC3

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