Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Socket.dev; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 93,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to design, build, and operate backend platform components, APIs, SDKs, and integration frameworks for OCI services and customers. This onsite role is based in Nashville, TN, with relocation options as per policy.

You will own a platform area, evolve contracts and versioning, and drive secure, multi-tenant interoperability while partnering with engineers across OCI to deliver reliable interfaces and comprehensive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in at least one OO language (Java, C++, C#, or Go).
• Experience designing backend services, APIs, or SDKs.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and secure coding.

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 a bounded set of distributed services; deliver compatibility-safe fixes and clear upgrade paths.
• Improve availability, performance, capacity, and operability through targeted resilience patterns, monitoring, logging, and automation.
• Partner with engineers across OCI to understand consumer 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

Back-end development

Distributed systems

API design

Problem solving

Java/C++/C#/Go

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for leading enterprises worldwide. Our cloud offers hyperscale, multi-tenant services deployed across more than 50 regions globally. OCI continues to expand beyond traditional public-cloud boundaries to support dedicated, hybrid, and multicloud solutions, edge computing, and more.

As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you will build the platform capabilities that make OCI services easier and safer for engineers and customers to use. You will own components within platform services, APIs, SDKs, integration frameworks, or developer tooling, helping teams adopt reliable interfaces and evolve them without disrupting downstream consumers.

This position is office-based and requires onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracle's relocation policies.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do

• 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 a bounded set of distributed services; deliver compatibility-safe fixes and clear upgrade paths.
• Improve availability, performance, capacity, and operability through targeted resilience patterns, monitoring, logging, and automation.
• Partner with engineers across OCI to understand consumer 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.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software-development experience; advanced degree holders may have fewer years of 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 a demonstrated sense of ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building highly available, scalable cloud services or platform products.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native deployment, observability, or service reliability engineering.
• Familiarity with database technologies and multi-tenant service design.
• Experience developing adoption guidance, technical documentation, or examples for other engineers.

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 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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