Senior Software Engineer — Build Scalable, Secure Features

Oracle; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 79,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Short term disability

Long term disability

Life insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off and vacation

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Stock Purchase Plan

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Oracle is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, implement, test, and operate major new features in our systems. You will own feature and subsystem design, balancing security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and performance.

You will write production-quality code and drive operational readiness for your features, while mentoring others and improving engineering practices. The role requires 4–8 years of software engineering experience, a CS degree (BS/MS) or equivalent,

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Strong coding

Testing

Debugging

Design skills

Independent work

Incident response

Metrics dashboards

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Job description

Oracle is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, implement, test, and operate major new features in our systems. You will own feature and subsystem design, balancing security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and performance.

You will write production-quality code and drive operational readiness for your features, while mentoring others and improving engineering practices. The role requires 4–8 years of software engineering experience, a CS degree (BS/MS) or equivalent,