Senior Platform Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 126,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Equity

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to enhance the Kubernetes experience on OCI. You will design, develop, and deliver cloud-native solutions enabling customers to deploy, manage, and scale applications on OCI.

You will own end-to-end work from definition to launch, collaborating with engineers across OCI on security, reliability, and operability of distributed systems while contributing to open-source projects in the CNCF ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, C#, Python or similar.
• Experience designing APIs, data models, and service architectures with scalability, availability, security, operability.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native systems including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering.
• Demonstrated ownership from problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and operation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver innovative Kubernetes-related solutions for OCI.
• Contribute to Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management and infrastructure automation.
• Collaborate across OCI to build reliable, scalable distributed systems.
• Engage with open-source projects that simplify running workloads on OCI.
• Communicate effectively across engineering disciplines and drive initiatives.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

APIs design

Programming languages

Ownership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Are you passionate about Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and open source software? Do you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges at scale? Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and help build the next generation of cloud-native services that power enterprise workloads around the world.

As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you will be part of a team focused on enhancing the Kubernetes experience on OCI. You will design, develop, and deliver innovative solutions that help customers deploy, manage, and scale applications using modern cloud-native technologies. Your work will directly contribute to strategic initiatives such as Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management, infrastructure automation, and open-source projects that simplify running workloads on OCI. You'll collaborate with talented engineers across OCI to build reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems while contributing to the broader Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystem.

This is an opportunity to work on impactful projects, influence technical direction, and solve challenging problems that affect customers at a global scale. We're looking for engineers who are curious, collaborative, and passionate about building high-quality software. If you thrive in a fast paced environment, enjoy taking ownership, and want to help shape the future of cloud infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Required qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 3+ years of professional software development experience, with a record of delivering production-quality distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools.


• Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar.


• Experience designing APIs, data models, and service architectures with attention to scalability, availability, security, and operability.


• Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering concepts.


• Demonstrated ownership: you can drive work from problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and ongoing operation.


• Clear written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines.

Preferred qualifications

• Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering.


• Large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant cloud services, control planes, or workflow orchestration.


• Site reliability engineering, production incident response, observability, or capacity and performance engineering.


• Security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation.

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.

Benefits

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.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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