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Oracle

Builds databases, business apps and cloud services

Senior Platform Software Engineer

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeIn-person

About the Job

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, distributed-system components, cloud-native services, or data-processing applications.
  • Ability to independently deliver well-scoped features and components, with guidance on broader technical design and prioritization.
  • Experience working collaboratively in an Agile or iterative software-development environment.
  • Exposure to data engineering or data platforms, including ingestion, processing, storage, or pipelines; IoT, device connectivity, telemetry, or edge-to-cloud systems; or AI/ML platforms, model training, model serving, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation harnesses, AI agents, or MCP.
  • Familiarity with REST APIs, source control, code review, automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery, containers, or cloud services.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for AI and cloud platform services.
  • Implement backend services, APIs, integrations, automation, data-processing components, and operational tooling.
  • Work with engineers and product managers to understand requirements and translate customer scenarios into software features.
  • Investigate customer feedback, troubleshoot issues, and improve product functionality to support rapid iteration.
  • Write clean, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code following established 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 operational tasks, deployment workflows, configuration, and testing.
  • Learn and apply OCI standards for reliability, security, availability, and operational readiness.
  • Implement features and services from defined technical requirements and designs.
  • Develop maintainable code, APIs, integrations, and automated tests.
  • Debug defects and improve performance, reliability, and usability of owned components.
  • Participate in code reviews and apply feedback to improve technical quality.
  • Support the team in understanding customer workflows and technical requirements.
  • Help turn customer feedback into actionable engineering tasks and product improvements.
  • Contribute to fast, iterative delivery while maintaining quality and engineering discipline.
  • Learn the domain and help identify opportunities to make solutions more reusable across customers.
  • Add monitoring, logging, and telemetry to owned components.
  • Assist with service troubleshooting, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis.
  • Follow operational procedures and contribute to runbooks and support documentation.
  • Help improve automation for deployments, testing, and routine operational tasks.
  • Follow secure-development practices and OCI engineering standards.
  • Work effectively with engineers, product managers, operations, security, and customer-facing teams.
  • Communicate progress, risks, and technical questions clearly and promptly.
  • Pursue ongoing learning in cloud, data, IoT, and AI technologies.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or another cloud platform.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, distributed data systems, or event-driven architectures.
  • Exposure to generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, MCP, or enterprise AI integrations.
  • Experience supporting enterprise applications, scientific or research workloads, IoT systems, or internal platform services.

About the Company

Oracle

Builds databases, business apps and cloud services

Oracle builds databases, business applications, and cloud infrastructure for companies and public-sector organizations. Oracle Database stores and processes business data, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides computing, storage, and networking for applications and AI workloads. Fusion Cloud Applications support finance, human resources, supply chains, and customer service, helping businesses manage everyday operations and reporting. Customers pay for cloud subscriptions and usage, software licenses, support, hardware, and consulting, with deployment options in Oracle's cloud or their own data centers. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founded
1977

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