About the role

What will you do at Oracle?

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.
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.
Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and
expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And
with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that
promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company
leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.
True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why
we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with
competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life
insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to
their communities through our volunteer programs.
We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the
employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for
a disability at any point, let us know by emailing
[email protected] [[email protected]] or by
calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.
Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability
and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and
conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Which skills does this role require?

JavaC++C#GoAPI designDistributed systemsMicroservicesCloud infrastructureSoftware developmentBackend developmentSystem programmingObject-oriented designDebuggingAutomationOracle Cloud InfrastructureOCICloud ComputingPlatform EngineeringBackendAPISDKDistributed SystemsResilienceSoftware DevelopmentSystem DesignIncident InvestigationScalabilityVersion ControlInteroperabilityEdge ComputingREST APIsAccessibility

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