Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $92,500–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 53 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Senior Platform Software Engineer

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As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you will join the team responsible for building platform capabilities that make OCI services safer and easier for engineers and customers to use. You will own components within platform services, including APIs, SDKs, integration frameworks, and developer tooling. Your daily work involves designing, building, testing, and operating backend platform components while evolving contracts for secure, multi-tenant use. You will diagnose complex issues across distributed services, improve availability through resilience patterns, and create technical documentation. The role requires proficiency in object-oriented or systems programming languages like Java, C++, C#, or Go. You must possess a strong understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and secure software-development practices to solve complex problems within the cloud-native infrastructure.

Skills

Java C++ C# Go RESTful APIs Microservices SDKs distributed-systems Containers Cloud-Native Observability Service Reliability Engineering Source Control Performance Profiling Secure Coding API Versioning

What you'll do

Design, build, test, and operate backend platform components, APIs, SDKs, and integration frameworks.
Own a specific platform area and manage its contracts, versioning, and multi-tenant interoperability.
Diagnose and resolve complex issues across distributed services while delivering compatibility-safe fixes.
Improve system availability, performance, and capacity through resilience patterns, monitoring, and automation.
Create high-quality technical documentation, samples, and operational guidance for platform consumers.
Lead code reviews and implement secure coding practices to ensure high software quality.
Perform periodic maintenance, testing, and troubleshooting to ensure service health and reliability.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
4+ years of professional software-development experience; advanced degree holders may have fewer years of experience.
Proficiency in at least one object-oriented or systems programming language, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
Experience designing and building backend services, APIs, microservices, SDKs, or developer-facing platform capabilities.
Understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and secure software-development practices.
Experience with API design, integration, versioning, testing, source control, and production troubleshooting.
Experience building highly available, scalable cloud services or platform products (preferred).
Experience with RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native deployment, observability, or service reliability engineering (preferred).

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