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Oracle lists this Senior Platform Software Engineer opportunity in nashville, Tennessee. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Job Description
Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.
Job Description
Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native services and microservices.
Build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Participate in software design reviews and contribute to technical discussions.
Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations.
Analyze system performance and implement improvements for scalability and reliability.
Collaborate with Product Management, and partner engineering teams.
Participate in code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.
Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and documentation.
Continuously improve engineering practices, tooling, and development processes.
Required Technical Skills
Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar language.
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
Knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming.
Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service-oriented architectures.
Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.
Understanding of system security, authentication protocols, and compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, PCI DSS).
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.
Experience operating production cloud services.
Familiarity with public cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing).
Experience with applied crytography.
Expectations
As Senior Platform Engineer you would be responsible for:
Technical Execution
Independently deliver medium-sized features and enhancements.
Break down problems into manageable technical tasks.
Produce clean, maintainable, and production-ready code.
Identify and fix production issues with minimal guidance.
Ownership
Own one or more service components.
Drive features from design through deployment.
Take responsibility for operational health of owned components.
Participate in incident response and postmortem activities.
Collaboration
Work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
Participate actively in design and code reviews.
Mentor interns and junior engineers on day-to-day engineering practices.
Operational Excellence
Build automation to reduce operational toil.
Improve monitoring, alerting, and service reliability.
Participate in on-call rotations and production support.
Continuously improve service availability and performance.
Success Indicators
A successful Senior Platform Engineer consistently:
Delivers high-quality features on schedule.
Demonstrates ownership of production services.
Writes reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Makes sound technical decisions with limited supervision.
Resolves production issues efficiently.
Contributes positively to team engineering culture.
Earns trust through technical competence and execution.
Qualifications
Disclaimer
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $92,500 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC3
About Us
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Worksite address
nashville, TN, 37247, US
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