Senior Software Development Engineer (OCI)

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN · Austin, TX
Salary: $79,200–$209,500 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Nearby: 84 roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Senior Software Development Engineer (OCI)

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As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the OCI Limits Team at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you will design, develop, and operate scalable distributed services that manage service limits, quotas, and capacity governance for OCI’s global customer base. Your day-to-day responsibilities include contributing to major platform features, ensuring high availability and reliability of cloud-native services, and collaborating with internal teams to enhance resource governance and scalability. You will troubleshoot complex production issues, drive automation in testing and deployment workflows, and mentor junior engineers while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern programming languages like Java, Go, or Python, as well as experience with REST APIs, databases, observability tools, and large-scale system performance tuning. This position is crucial for supporting OCI’s rapid growth and operational stability, particularly focusing on the Nashville-TN location with Austin-TX as a secondary option.

Skills

Java Go Python Terraform REST API Docker Kubernetes CI/CD AWS Azure GCP PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch Prometheus Grafana Git Jenkins Ansible CloudFormation

What you'll do

Design, develop, and operate scalable distributed services for the OCI Limits platform.
Contribute to architecture, implementation, and delivery of major platform features and service enhancements.
Build highly available, reliable, and performant cloud-native services.
Troubleshoot complex production issues and participate in operational support rotations.
Improve service scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational efficiency.
Write clean, maintainable, high-quality production code.

What we're looking for

6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and cloud services.
Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Python, C++, or similar languages.
Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, scalability, fault tolerance, and service-oriented architectures.
Hands-on experience with REST API design and distributed service architectures.
Experience with databases, NoSQL systems, storage technologies, and distributed persistence systems.
Strong problem-solving skills and familiarity with observability, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning in large-scale systems.

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