Senior Software Engineer

Oracle; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 79,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a software engineer to design, implement, test, and operate major new features in our production systems. You will own feature and subsystem design, ensuring security, reliability, and performance while writing robust, well-tested code.

You will drive operational excellence, participate in planning, and work independently on most projects while handling on-call duties and incident response. The role emphasizes mentoring, metrics, dashboards, and reducing technical debt.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent domain-specific experience.
• Experience building and operating production software systems.
• Strong coding, testing, debugging, and design skills.
• Ability to work independently and make thoughtful technical tradeoffs.
• Experience with operational services, incident response, metrics, dashboards, or service health monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate major new features in existing systems.
• Own feature and subsystem design, including tradeoffs around security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, performance, and change management.
• Write production-quality code that is correct, secure, maintainable, robust, and well-tested.
• Drive operational readiness and excellence for owned features and subsystems.
• Participate in planning and risk identification for systems and services across the director-level organization.
• Work independently on most projects while seeking guidance for complex, mission-critical, high-scale, or cross-team problems.
• Support on-call operations, triage issues, and remediate problems without routine assistance.
• Lead or contribute to root-cause analysis and propose practical solutions.
• Develop or improve metrics, dashboards, and tools that increase situational awareness.
• Identify and implement improvements that reduce operational load, reduce manual touchpoints, increase service availability, improve compliance with organizational standards, and reduce technical debt.
• Improve the team through engineering practices, operational practices, development process, ownership, and mentoring.

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent domain-specific experience

Job description

Job Description

• Design, implement, test, and operate major new features in existing systems.

• Own feature and subsystem design, including tradeoffs around security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, performance, and change management.

• Write production-quality code that is correct, secure, maintainable, robust, and well-tested.

• Drive operational readiness and excellence for owned features and subsystems.

• Participate in planning and risk identification for systems and services across the director-level organization.

• Work independently on most projects while seeking guidance for complex, mission-critical, high-scale, or cross-team problems.

• Support on-call operations, triage issues, and remediate problems without routine assistance.

• Lead or contribute to root-cause analysis and propose practical solutions.

• Develop or improve metrics, dashboards, and tools that increase situational awareness.

• Identify and implement improvements that reduce operational load, reduce manual touchpoints, increase service availability, improve compliance with organizational standards, and reduce technical debt.

• Improve the team through engineering practices, operational practices, development process, ownership, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• 4-8 years of relevant software engineering experience.

• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent domain-specific experience.

• Experience building and operating production software systems.

• Strong coding, testing, debugging, and design skills.

• Ability to work independently and make thoughtful technical tradeoffs.

• Experience with operational services, incident response, metrics, dashboards, or service health monitoring.

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: $79,200 to $209,500 per annum. 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:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. 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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