Senior Platform Software Engineer at Oracle in United States

Job description

• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Required

• Java
• Go
• Python
• C++
• C#
• REST APIs
• source control
• code review
• automated testing
• CI/CD
• containers
• cloud services