Senior Platform Software Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity

Oracle • Nashville, TN

17h • Onsite

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is hiring a Senior Platform Software Engineer for its Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization. The team develops platforms, services, workflows, and operational tools that enable planning, sourcing, deployment, and management of capacity across Oracle’s global cloud infrastructure. Its systems support infrastructure planning, capacity forecasting, deployment readiness, sourcing operations, and operational decision-making, serving engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance teams.

The engineer independently designs, develops, tests, and operates software components and services for infrastructure planning and capacity management. The role owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs, evolves contracts for multi-tenant use, leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling, and performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services. It also analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets; implements resilience and capacity optimizations; and authors team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

The position involves developing and optimizing software aligned with established architecture, conducting code reviews, testing and troubleshooting, maintaining APIs, and supporting secure, reliable services. The engineer collaborates with team members and cross-functional partners to resolve customer issues, improve products, and maintain system availability. The position is onsite five days per week in Nashville, Tennessee; it is not remote. Relocation assistance is available.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 4 years of professional software development experience delivering production services or applications; additional qualification text specifies alternative education-and-experience paths, including 8 years of software development without a listed degree.
• Strong programming ability in Java, Python, Go, C#, or a comparable modern language; proficiency in every listed language is not required.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, or cloud-native applications with relational and/or distributed databases.
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and system design.
• Familiarity with source control, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work independently and collaborate across teams.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Demonstrated knowledge or ability in distributed systems, including scalable, secure, and highly available systems.
• Experience creating and refining prototypes for system validation and stakeholder feedback.
• Understanding of computer science principles and ability to implement them in code.
• Proficiency across phases of software engineering and development.
• Knowledge of modern web application development, including design, development, or maintenance using current frameworks.
• Ability to support innovation through new ideas, technologies, or processes.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders across teams or geographies.
• Ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT and physical information assets.
• Knowledge of operating systems, including installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting operating environments.
• Ability to develop, test, and maintain secure APIs and robust API integrations.
• Skill in designing, analyzing, and optimizing algorithms for efficiency and scalability.
• Ability to manage and document code versions and release branches.
• The qualifications section lists 4 years of programming and/or scripting experience and 3 years of database experience.
• Must work onsite five days per week in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with distributed systems, scalable backend services, and workflow-based applications.
• Experience with data pipelines, ETL, streaming, and operational analytics.
• Experience in capacity management, demand planning, sourcing, supply chain, or data center operations.
• Experience with OCI or another major cloud platform, Kubernetes, containers, and microservices.
• At least 2 years of cloud platform experience is listed in the preferred job qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Own a bounded platform component, such as a service module or SDK area, and evolve its contracts for multi-tenant use.
• Debug a limited-service graph and drive compatibility-safe remediation plans.
• Implement resilience and capacity patterns and document adoption guidance for team consumers.
• Design software solutions, analyze requirements, and help achieve business and operational goals independently.
• Follow and suggest improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Develop software features and enhancements according to design specifications and document software design and code.
• Lead code reviews in designated areas to improve software quality.
• Debug and troubleshoot moderately complex software issues and develop fixes.
• Implement functional and non-functional testing, quality assurance, error logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Profile and optimize software performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve moderately complex API functionality and integration issues.
• Implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Design and develop software, systems, and services aligned with the predefined system architecture.
• Collaborate with team leads to review work for architectural alignment.
• Implement performance optimization and scalability strategies.
• Collaborate across teams to understand customer issues and align solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and support for customer-reported issues when needed.
• Coach and guide others in advocating for customers and suggest product enhancements based on feedback.
• Promote timely customer issue resolution and effective communication.
• Implement customer issue and defect handling and training processes.
• Investigate complex product maintenance issues and work toward agreed short- and long-term solutions.
• Establish and follow development practices and coding standards, maintain code quality, and apply industry best practices.
• Implement secure coding practices to prevent vulnerabilities.
• Perform periodic system maintenance, testing, upgrades, and patching, including for critical vulnerabilities.
• Improve automation, testing, and debugging to support service availability, health, support, and reliability.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits supporting employees with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options.
• Employee volunteer programs.
• Relocation assistance is available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior