Senior Platform Software Engineer

** Job Description*
* You will be a senior member of the engineering team that builds the Oracle Managed Kubernetes (OMK) platform at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). OMK is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) enterprise-grade Kubernetes service that provides a managed, scalable, and secure environment to deploy containerized applications. It is built on the open-source Kubernetes engine and designed to simplify operations, improve performance, and provide deep integration with the broader OCI ecosystem.

Typical activities will range from leading design and discovery discussions, reviewing the roadmap with stakeholders, prototyping, and hands-on software development.

Self-motivated and possessing a wide range of skills and experience, you should be able to understand business needs, work closely with product owners, and strike a good balance between business goals and technical implementations. You are expected to be independent and contribute to a wide range of high-impact projects across the organization.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Key Responsibilities*
* ** Platform Software Development:*
* + 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.

** Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:*
* + 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.

** Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:*
* + 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.

** Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:*
* + 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).

** Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:*
* + 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…