Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle

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Location
Nashville, TN
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$92,500–$209,500 / yr
Posted
84 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Platform Software Engineer

The Senior Platform Software Engineer joins the Software Ecosystem Management team to build a new initiative providing a trusted view of the software ecosystem. This role involves designing, implementing, and operating scalable backend services, APIs, and data-processing workflows to handle large volumes of software metadata from multiple upstream systems. You will develop data models and normalization logic to support ownership, lifecycle state, and dependency analysis across services. The position requires expertise in Java or other object-oriented languages, distributed systems, databases, and production-grade backend services. You will debug across service boundaries, improve reliability through observability and automation, and translate evolving requirements into maintainable designs. This work addresses the technical challenge of normalizing complex metadata to provide visibility into a large, distributed software estate.

What does a Platform Software Engineer earn?

Median $156000 from 139 postings across 5 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and operate core components within the SEM platform.
  • Build scalable backend services, APIs, and data-processing workflows for software metadata.
  • Develop data models and normalization logic to support ownership and dependency analysis.
  • Translate evolving requirements into maintainable designs while balancing speed and durability.
  • Debug issues across service boundaries and provide reliable fixes for root causes.
  • Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability through testing and automation.
  • Operate production services and use operational data to drive continuous improvements.

What we're looking for

  • Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • 4+ years of experience in distributed service engineering or a related software development role.
  • Strong development experience in Java or another object-oriented language.
  • Experience building or operating distributed systems and APIs at scale.
  • Familiarity with databases, data processing, and production-grade backend services.
  • Experience debugging across service boundaries and improving reliability and performance.

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