Senior Software Engineer

Oracle • Santa Clara, CA

9d • $104,500 - $234,600

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the Molecular Platform: cloud capabilities that help scientific and enterprise customers manage complex data, workflows, and related services. The team is developing initial capabilities with strategic customers and evolving them into reusable OCI platform offerings.

The Software Developer 3 will help build and operate Molecular Platform services, collaborating with experienced engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and customer-facing teams. The role involves delivering reliable software, understanding customer workflows, and contributing to rapid product iteration while developing production-quality components and building depth in cloud platforms, distributed data systems, scientific workflows, and AI-enabled services.

The position includes developing backend services, APIs, data-ingestion and processing components, workflow integrations, automation, and operational tooling. Engineers contribute to testing, observability, service troubleshooting, code reviews, design discussions, documentation, planning, and routine operational improvements. The role follows OCI engineering practices for secure development, reliability, availability, privacy, and operational readiness.

The U.S. hiring range is $104,500 to $234,600 per annum. The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package, including insurance, retirement savings, paid time off, holidays, sick leave, parental leave, adoption assistance, and other benefits.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional software-development experience, including experience delivering production software or services.
• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, C#, or similar.
• Experience developing backend applications, cloud-native services, distributed-system components, data-processing applications, or workflow systems.
• Ability to independently deliver well-scoped features and components, with guidance on broader technical design and prioritization.
• Experience collaborating in an Agile or iterative software-development environment.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn from customers, product managers, applied scientists, and senior engineers.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and cloud services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or another cloud platform.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, distributed data systems, event-driven architectures, or workflow orchestration.
• Exposure to data engineering, data platforms, scientific data, data pipelines, metadata management, or data governance.
• Exposure to AI/ML platforms, model training, model-serving systems, RAG, evaluation harnesses, AI agents, MCP, or enterprise AI integrations.
• Experience supporting scientific, research, life-sciences, or enterprise platform workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for Molecular Platform services.
• Implement backend services, APIs, data-ingestion and processing components, workflow integrations, automation, and operational tooling.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to understand requirements and translate customer scenarios into software features.
• Investigate customer feedback, troubleshoot issues, and improve product functionality through rapid iteration.
• Write clean, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code using established OCI engineering practices.
• Build unit, integration, and functional tests, and participate in performance and resilience testing.
• Add logging, metrics, telemetry, health checks, and alerts to improve service observability.
• Help investigate, debug, and resolve service issues in development and production environments.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and engineering-planning activities.
• Automate repeatable tasks related to deployment, configuration, testing, and service operations.
• Implement features and services from defined requirements and technical designs.
• Debug defects and improve the performance, reliability, and usability of owned components.
• Support the team in understanding customer workflows, technical requirements, and feedback.
• Translate feedback into actionable engineering tasks and product improvements.
• Learn the scientific and technical domain and identify opportunities to make solutions reusable across customers.
• Assist with service troubleshooting, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis.
• Follow secure-development practices and OCI standards for reliability, availability, privacy, and operational readiness.
• Contribute to runbooks, support documentation, and automation for deployments, testing, and routine operations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Flexible Vacation for eligible salaried non-overtime employees, or accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
• 11 paid holidays.
• 72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshed annually, with carryover up to a maximum of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal benefits.
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
• The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
• Volunteer programs.

What This Job Offers

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