Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

59d•$92,500 - $209,500

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. You should be a rock-solid coder and distributed systems generalist who values simplicity, scale, collaboration, and continuous learning. This role also calls for embracing AI-native development to accelerate delivery, improve engineering workflows, and rethink how OCI teams build, test, operate, and evolve software. After onboarding, you will be expected to provide technical leadership to other software developers.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5-6+ years of professional software development experience.
Proficiency in Java and 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.

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: 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; 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.
Demonstrate practical experience using AI-assisted techniques and tools to improve developer productivity and software quality, including faster prototyping, stronger test coverage, safer refactoring, better documentation, and improved operational workflows.
Apply an AI-native engineering mindset to day-to-day work: generating and validating code suggestions, creating and maintaining tests, improving observability and runbooks, and rethinking how software teams build, test, operate, and evolve cloud infrastructure.
Understand and follow enterprise security and privacy requirements when using AI tooling, including protecting sensitive data and using approved tools and workflows.

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