Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 93,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Software Developer 3 (IC3) to design, develop, and operate scalable cloud services. You will work with senior engineers to own service components from design through production operations in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes building distributed systems, REST APIs, and modern development practices while ensuring reliability and security across Oracle Cloud services.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Familiarity with Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service‑oriented architectures.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.

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, QA, SRE, 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

Programming languages

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Concurrency

Linux networking

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Cloud concepts

Git/CI-CD/Testing

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job Description

As a Software Developer 3 (IC3) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), you will design, develop, and operate highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud services. You will work with senior engineers and architects to build distributed systems that power Oracle Cloud while taking ownership of well-defined service components from design through production operations.

As a Software Developer 3 (IC3) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), you will design, develop, and operate highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud services. You will work with senior engineers and architects to build distributed systems that power Oracle Cloud while taking ownership of well-defined service components from design through production operations.

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, QA, SRE, 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.
• Familiarity with Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service‑oriented architectures.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating production cloud services.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, or container orchestration.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Understanding of security best practices, authentication, and authorization.

Expectations

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

• 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.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• 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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