Senior Platform Engineer: OCI Planning & Capacity Automation

• Job Identification 343774
• 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

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a motivated Software Developer 3 to join the Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization. This team develops the platforms, services, workflows, and operational tooling that enable Oracle to plan, source, deploy, and manage capacity across its global cloud infrastructure footprint.

Our systems support critical engineering and business processes across infrastructure planning, capacity forecasting, deployment readiness, sourcing operations, and operational decision-making. We build cloud-native services, workflow platforms, data pipelines, and analytics solutions used by engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance teams across OCI.

As a member of this team, you will independently design, develop, test, and operate software components and services that support infrastructure planning and capacity management. You will solve standard and non-standard engineering problems, improve existing systems and processes, and collaborate with experienced engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver reliable solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building cloud-native applications, and a passion for solving operational challenges through automation, data, and scalable platform development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and operate cloud-native services supporting OCI infrastructure planning and capacity management.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, workflow components, and automation that support business-critical operational processes.
• Develop software that processes infrastructure, operational, and planning data at scale.
• Implement data ingestion, transformation, and analytics capabilities that improve forecasting accuracy and operational visibility.
• Work with product managers, technical program managers, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to deliver well-defined technical solutions.
• Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues; improve monitoring, observability, reliability, and operational automation.
• Identify and implement practical improvements to workflows, system performance, and manual processes.
• Collaborate with related OCI teams to integrate with infrastructure, inventory, planning, and capacity-management systems.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production support activities as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years professional software development experience building and delivering production services or applications.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, C#, or a similar modern programming language.
• Experience developing backend services, APIs, or cloud-native applications.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and system design.
• Experience working with relational and/or distributed databases.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, source control, monitoring, and observability.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as Codex,…