Senior Platform Software Engineer (Hybrid - Nashville)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Relocation assistance (may apply)

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build backend platform components and APIs for OCI services. You will own a platform area, evolve its interfaces, and work with multi-tenant designs to ensure reliability and security.

The role emphasizes designing and implementing scalable backend services, APIs, and developer tooling, with strong collaboration across OCI teams. Onsite in Nashville, relocation support may apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical 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 ownership mindset.

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 distributed services; deliver compatibility-safe fixes and upgrade paths.
• Improve availability, performance, capacity, and operability through resilience patterns, monitoring, and automation.
• Partner with engineers across OCI to understand 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

Java

C++

C#

Go

Backend services

APIs / microservices

Distributed systems

Data structures / algorithms

Code reviews / collaboration

Education

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

Tools

RESTful APIs

Containers

Cloud-native deployment

Observability

SRE practices

Job description

Oracle Corporation in Nashville is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to build backend platform components and APIs for OCI services. You will own a platform area, evolve its interfaces, and work with multi-tenant designs to ensure reliability and security.

The role emphasizes designing and implementing scalable backend services, APIs, and developer tooling, with strong collaboration across OCI teams. Onsite in Nashville, relocation support may apply.