Oracle Corporation

Senior Platform Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Oracle Corporation$92K — $209K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years in software development with production-quality distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages like Java, Go, C++, C#, or Python.
  • Experience in designing APIs and service architectures focusing on scalability and security.
  • Solid understanding of cloud-native technologies like containers and CI/CD practices.
  • Demonstrated ownership from problem identification to operational deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Enhance the Kubernetes experience on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
  • Design and develop innovative solutions for application deployment and management.
  • Contribute to Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management and infrastructure automation.
  • Collaborate with engineers to create reliable and secure distributed systems.
  • Influence technical direction and shape cloud infrastructure projects on a global scale.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Short and long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance and AD&D coverage.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care.
  • 401(k) plan with company match and opportunities for equity through stock purchase plans.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you will be part of a team focused on enhancing the Kubernetes experience on OCI. You will design, develop, and deliver innovative solutions that help customers deploy, manage, and scale applications using modern cloud-native technologies. Your work will directly contribute to strategic initiatives such as Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management, infrastructure automation, and open-source projects that simplify running workloads on OCI. You'll collaborate with talented engineers across OCI to build reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems while contributing to the broader Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystem.

This is an opportunity to work on impactful projects, influence technical direction, and solve challenging problems that affect customers at a global scale. We're looking for engineers who are curious, collaborative, and passionate about building high-quality software. If you thrive in a fast paced environment, enjoy taking ownership, and want to help shape the future of cloud infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3+ years of professional software development experience, with a record of delivering production-quality distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools.
  • Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar.
  • Experience designing APIs, data models, and service architectures with attention to scalability, availability, security, and operability.
  • Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering concepts.
  • Demonstrated ownership: you can drive work from problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and ongoing operation.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines.

Preferred qualifications: Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus.
  • Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering.
  • Large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant cloud services, control planes, or workflow orchestration.
  • Site reliability engineering, production incident response, observability, or capacity and performance engineering.
  • Security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation.


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 to $209,500 per annum. 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.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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Oracle Dyn Global Business Unit is a pioneer in managed DNS and a leader in cloud-based infrastructure that connects users with digital content and experiences across a global internet. Dyn's solution is powered by a global network that drives 40 billion traffic optimization decisions daily for more than 3,500 enterprise customers, including preeminent digital brands such as Netflix, Twitter, Linkedin and CNBC. Adding Dyn's best-in-class DNS and email services extend the Oracle cloud computing platform and provides enterprise customers with a one-stop shop for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). On January 31, 2017 Oracle completed the acquisition of Dyn, which now operates as an Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) global business unit (GBU).

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