Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$92,500–$209,500 / yr
Posted
9 days ago
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This role $151k
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This role pays less than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$202,482 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $151k versus about $177k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Platform

As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, you will join the team responsible for building platform capabilities that make cloud services safer and easier for engineers and customers to use. You will own specific components within platform services, including APIs, SDKs, integration frameworks, and developer tooling while ensuring reliable interfaces and seamless evolution for downstream consumers. Your daily work involves designing, building, testing, and operating backend components, managing contract versioning, and resolving complex issues across distributed services. To succeed, you must be proficient in object-oriented or systems programming languages like Java, C++, C#, or Go. You will utilize skills in microservices, RESTful APIs, containerization, and service reliability engineering to solve problems related to multi-tenant service design, high availability, and performance optimization within a complex cloud infrastructure environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197400 from 2246 postings across 139 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, test, and operate backend platform components, APIs, SDKs, and integration frameworks.
  • Own specific platform areas while managing contract evolution, versioning, and multi-tenant interoperability.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex issues across distributed services with compatibility-safe fixes.
  • Improve system availability, performance, and capacity through monitoring, logging, and automation.
  • Review designs and code to guide the adoption of platform capabilities by other engineers.
  • Create high-quality technical documentation, samples, and operational guidance for platform consumers.
  • Participate in incident investigation and root-cause follow-up for continuous service improvement.

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.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills with a demonstrated sense of ownership.
  • Experience with cloud services, RESTful APIs, containers, or service reliability engineering (preferred).

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