Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

1d•$92,500 - $209,500

About The Position

The Senior Platform Software Engineer owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs and leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. The role involves deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths, analyzing usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces, implementing targeted resilience and capacity optimizations, and authoring team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance. The engineer designs, develops, tests, and maintains cloud-native services and microservices, delivering medium-sized features and enhancements from design through deployment. They own one or more service components, take responsibility for their operational health, troubleshoot production issues, participate in incident response and postmortems, and help improve availability, performance, monitoring, alerting, automation, and operational practices. The role collaborates with Product Management and partner engineering teams, contributes to design and code reviews, communicates technical tradeoffs, and mentors interns and junior engineers. Oracle describes its employee benefits as including medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off, holidays, and sick leave; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal benefits; and voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance. The position may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

Requirements

Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar language.
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
Knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming.
Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service-oriented architectures.
Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.
Understanding of system security, authentication protocols, and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP or PCI DSS.
Ability to independently deliver medium-sized features and enhancements and identify and fix production issues with minimal guidance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.
Experience operating production cloud services.
Familiarity with public cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and tracing.
Experience with applied cryptography.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native services and microservices.
Build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Participate in software design reviews and technical discussions.
Write high-quality, maintainable, well-tested, production-ready code.
Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortem activities.
Analyze system performance and implement scalability, resilience, capacity, and reliability improvements.
Collaborate with Product Management and partner engineering teams.
Participate in code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.
Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, automation, documentation, and reduced operational toil.
Continuously improve engineering practices, tooling, and development processes.
Independently deliver medium-sized features and enhancements, breaking problems into manageable technical tasks.
Own one or more service components and drive features from design through deployment.
Take responsibility for the operational health of owned components.
Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Mentor interns and junior engineers on day-to-day engineering practices.
Author and curate team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.
Analyze usage, performance, and error budgets for platform surfaces and protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths through fixes.