Senior Platform Software Engineer
Oracle
Senior Platform Software Engineer
Oracle
Builds databases, business apps and cloud services
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical cloud services for leading enterprises around the world. OCI provides hyper-scale, multi-tenant services across a global cloud footprint and continues to expand across dedicated, hybrid, multicloud, edge, data, and AI capabilities.
We are seeking a Software Developer 3 to help build and operate AI and cloud platform capabilities supporting a strategic enterprise customer engagement. The team is developing an initial capability for a large customer and evolving it into a reusable OCI platform offering.
In this role, you will work with experienced engineers, product management, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable software, learn the customer’s technical needs, and contribute to rapid product iteration. You will develop production-quality components while building depth in cloud platforms, data systems, IoT, or AI technologies.
What You’ll Do
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.
Contribute to rapid iteration by investigating customer feedback, troubleshooting issues, and improving product functionality.
Write clean, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code following established engineering practices.
Build unit, integration, and functional tests; 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.
What You’ll Bring
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.
Curiosity and willingness to learn rapidly from customers, product managers, and senior engineers.
Exposure to one or more of the following areas:
Data engineering or data platforms, including ingestion, processing, storage, or pipelines
IoT, device connectivity, telemetry, or edge-to-cloud systems
AI/ML platforms, model training, model serving, RAG, evaluation harnesses, AI agents, or MCP
Familiarity with REST APIs, source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, or cloud services.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Responsibilities
Software Development
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.
Customer-Focused Delivery
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.
Reliability & Operations
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.
Security & Collaboration
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.
Preferred 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, RAG, AI agents, MCP, or enterprise AI integrations.
Experience supporting enterprise applications, scientific/research workloads, IoT systems, or internal platform 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.
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