Senior Platform Software Engineer, OCI Kubernetes Engine

What you'll do

• Own OKE platform components from initial design and implementation through testing, deployment, and ongoing operation.
• Investigate and resolve complex issues across distributed services to provide fixes that preserve safe upgrade paths.
• Analyze usage, performance, and error budgets to implement targeted improvements in system resilience and capacity.
• Lead improvements in automated testing, deployment tooling, and operational workflows to reduce manual work.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, examples, and adoption guidance for internal and external users.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to investigate service incidents, address customer escalations, and restore service.
• Perform operational maintenance and implement improvements to prevent recurring system issues.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of software engineering experience building, delivering, and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Experience developing and maintaining large Java or Go codebases.
• Experience building automation and tooling using languages such as Python.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.
• Experience developing or managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes (preferred).
• Experience with overlay networking, container networking on Linux, or Linux system management (preferred).