Senior Platform Software Engineer - Kubernetes
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver innovative solutions that help customers deploy, manage, and scale applications using modern cloud-native technologies.
- Contribute to strategic initiatives such as Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management, infrastructure automation, and open-source projects.
- Collaborate with talented engineers across OCI to build reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems.
- Contribute to the broader Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystem.
- Drive work from problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and ongoing operation.
Benefits
- 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
- 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
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
