Senior Platform Software Engineer (Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management)

About the role

As a Software Developer 3 (IC3) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), you will design, develop, and operate highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud services. You will work with senior engineers and architects to build distributed systems that power Oracle Cloud while taking ownership of well-defined service components from design through production operations.

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, QA, SRE, 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Familiarity with Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience operating production cloud services.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, or container orchestration.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Understanding of security best practices, authentication, and authorization.

Expectations

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

• 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.

Pay

US hiring range: $92,500 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, locations, and differing products, industries, and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on those factors as well as internal peer equity.

Benefits

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 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 for eligible salaried employees; accrued vacation for others (13 days annually for first three years, 18 days annually thereafter for employees working at least 35 hours/week, prorated for 20–34 hours/week)
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon date of hire, refreshes each calendar year, carries over up to 112 hours maximum
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance

Career level: IC3. Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer/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 is specific to the stated locations only.