Senior Platform Software Engineer

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• Job Identification 338582
• Job Category Product and Research
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 3 to 5+ years
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native services and microservices.
• Build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Participate in software design reviews and contribute to technical discussions.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations.
• Analyze system performance and implement improvements for scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product Management, and partner engineering teams.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.
• Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and documentation.
• Continuously improve engineering practices, tooling, and development processes.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar language.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
• Knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming.
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.
• Understanding of system security, authentication protocols, and compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, PCI DSS).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.
• Experience operating production cloud services.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Experience with applied crytography.

Expectations

As Senior Platform Engineer you would be responsible for:

Technical Execution

• Independently deliver medium-sized features and enhancements.
• Break down problems into manageable technical tasks.
• Produce clean, maintainable, and production-ready code.
• Identify and fix production issues with minimal guidance.

Ownership

• Own one or more service components.
• Drive features from design through deployment.
• Take responsibility for operational health of owned components.
• Participate in incident response and postmortem activities.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Participate actively in design and code reviews.
• Mentor interns and junior engineers on day-to-day engineering practices.

Operational Excellence

• Build automation to reduce operational toil.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and service reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production support.
• Continuously improve service availability and performance.

Success Indicators

• Delivers high-quality features on schedule.
• Demonstrates ownership of production services.
• Writes reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Makes sound technical decisions with limited supervision.
• Resolves production issues efficiently.
• Contributes positively to team engineering culture.
• Earns trust through technical competence and execution.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only.

US:
Hiring Range in USD from: $92,500 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: