Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle • Nashville, TN

10d • $92,500 - $209,500

About The Position

As a Senior Software Development Engineer (IC3), you will design, build, and operate core components of OCI’s streaming infrastructure, with a strong focus on scalability, resiliency, and low-latency performance in distributed environments. You will own features end-to-end, participating in the full software lifecycle—from requirements and design to implementation, deployment, monitoring, and production support—while contributing to a platform that operates at large scale and serves critical customer workloads. We are looking for engineers who enjoy building efficient systems and learning how to run them reliably in production. This includes building and optimizing request handling layers, gateways, and network-facing services using technologies such as Netty-based async servers, event-driven frameworks (e.g., Vert.x), and distributed gateway architectures. You bring solid programming skills in languages such as Java and Python, a strong foundation in distributed systems concepts, and the ability to debug complex issues using logs, metrics, and telemetry. In this role, you will collaborate closely with experienced engineers, improve reliability and automation through better tooling and CI/CD, and help balance trade-offs between latency, throughput, and resource utilization. This position offers meaningful technical ownership, exposure to large-scale cloud systems, and a clear growth path toward technical leadership.

Requirements

• Solid programming skills in languages such as Java and Python.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems concepts.
• Ability to debug complex issues using logs, metrics, and telemetry.
• Experience with Netty-based async servers.
• Experience with event-driven frameworks (e.g., Vert.x).
• Experience with distributed gateway architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD.
• Experience with observability.
• Experience with operational tooling.
• Experience with software architecture decisions and best practices.
• Experience with performance profiling and optimization.
• Experience with API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Experience with secure coding practices.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with OCI’s streaming infrastructure.
• Experience with Netty or Vert.x.
• Experience with cloud scale systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data plane components (gateways, ingestion/delivery paths, partition routing) using async frameworks such as Netty or Vert.x.
• Own features end-to-end—from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues using logs, metrics, and tracing; drive strong root cause analysis.
• Optimize system performance by balancing latency, throughput, and resource utilization at cloud scale.
• Improve reliability and automation through CI/CD enhancements, observability, and operational tooling.
• Own a bounded platform component (service module, SDK area) and evolve its contracts for multi-tenant use.
• Perform deep debugging across a limited-service graph; drive compatibility-safe remediation plans.
• Implement targeted resilience/capacity patterns and document adoption guidance for team consumers.
• Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently.
• Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
• Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements.
• Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues. Develops fixes for identified issues.
• Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead throughout the process.
• Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding.
• Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
• Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture.
• Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices.
• Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture.
• Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
• Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions.
• May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently.
• Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
• Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
• Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently.
• Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).
• Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards.
• Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.
• Keeps up to date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
• Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.
• Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).
• Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
• Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements. Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.
• Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.
• Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.
• Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.
• Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

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
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed