Senior Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure

As a member of the software engineering division, you will design, develop, debug, and improve software supporting OCI’s hardware repair platform. You will contribute to the design and implementation of distributed-system components, delivering features that improve scalability, reliability, and performance. You will work with other engineers to evolve existing software architecture, review implementations, and build services that can be tested, monitored, and operated reliably in production.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Meet one of the following education and software development experience combinations:
• 8 years of experience in software development; or
• A bachelor’s degree, including a B.Tech, in a relevant field and 4 years of experience in software development; or
• A master’s degree, including an M.Tech, in a relevant field and 2 years of experience in software development; or
• A doctorate in a relevant field.

Relevant fields include Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.

In addition:

• 2 years of professional experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OCI.
• 3 years of experience in testing and automation at the system level.
• 2 years of experience delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java and strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills, including diagnosing issues in operating environments and improving system efficiency.
• Experience developing, testing, and integrating secure REST APIs and services, with knowledge of modern web application development.
• Proficiency across the software development lifecycle, including source control, code reviews, and creating or refining prototypes to validate solutions.
• Ability to assess security vulnerabilities, apply appropriate protections, and collaborate across teams to deliver and improve software.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python or Perl.

• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure.

• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.

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: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.


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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

• Design and implement assigned features and components with independent judgment and minimal supervision. 
• Improve scalability and data processing performance, and review peer implementations.
•  Build fault-tolerant components using replication, failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts. Implement functional, load, performance, and failure-scenario tests to validate correctness and availability. 
• Develop dashboards, alerts, telemetry, and runbooks; participate in operational support rotations, incident response, and root-cause investigations. 
• Maintain troubleshooting tools and infrastructure automation, apply encryption and access controls, address security vulnerabilities, and follow change-management and compliance requirements for safe updates and rollbacks. 
• Collaborate across teams, share knowledge, and escalate more complex issues when needed.