Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will own the design and development of major components that improve the developer experience for software teams building Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The role calls for strong coding skills and broad distributed-systems knowledge, with an emphasis on simplicity, scale, collaboration, and continuous learning. You will also apply AI-native development practices to accelerate delivery, improve engineering workflows, and rethink how OCI teams build, test, operate, and evolve software. After onboarding, you will provide technical leadership to other software developers. You will build platform services, APIs, tools, and capabilities; deliver features from requirements through deployment and operational support; and partner with OCI engineering teams to turn developer pain points into reliable, scalable internal solutions. The work includes code and design reviews, engineering best practices, production troubleshooting, on-call and incident response, and maintaining documentation and operational playbooks. The position requires practical use of AI-assisted techniques and tools to improve developer productivity and software quality, while following enterprise security and privacy requirements and using approved tools and workflows. Oracle's stated U.S. hiring range for the specified locations is $87,800 to $209,500 per annum. The role may be eligible for bonus and equity.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5–6+ years of professional software development experience.
Proficiency in Java.
Experience building REST and/or gRPC services.
Experience building full-stack software, including backend services and user-facing tools or web applications.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
Working knowledge of data stores, including RDBMS and/or NoSQL systems.
Experience with modern engineering practices, including source control, code review, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills.
Practical experience using AI-assisted techniques and tools to improve developer productivity and software quality.
Ability to comply with enterprise security and privacy requirements when using AI tools.

Responsibilities

Design and implement full-stack services, APIs, tools, and platform capabilities that improve the developer experience for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure software teams.
Deliver features end to end, including requirements clarification, technical design, implementation, automated testing, deployment, and operational support.
Partner with OCI engineering teams to understand developer pain points and turn them into reliable, scalable internal platform capabilities.
Participate in code and design reviews and contribute to engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and operational readiness.
Diagnose and resolve production issues; participate in on-call and incident response and drive follow-up actions.
Produce and maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational playbooks.
Use AI-assisted techniques and tools to improve developer productivity and software quality, including prototyping, test coverage, refactoring, documentation, and operational workflows.
Apply AI-native engineering practices to generating and validating code suggestions, creating and maintaining tests, improving observability and runbooks, and rethinking software development workflows.
Follow enterprise security and privacy requirements when using AI tooling, including protecting sensitive data and using approved tools and workflows.
Provide technical leadership to other software developers after onboarding.