Oracle Corporation

Senior Platform Software Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of software development experience in distributed services.
  • Proficiency in Java, C++, C#, Go, Python, or similar languages.
  • Solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems principles.
  • Experience in designing and launching features, from documentation to operational use.
  • Expertise in operating production services and conducting root-cause analysis.
  • Understanding of databases, service state management, and failure handling.
  • Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and operate major features for OCI build services.
  • Enhance distributed services, APIs, and CI/CD integration points.
  • Drive improvements to reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
  • Manage inputs and workflows related to build processes and artifacts.
  • Automate build execution and artifact validation processes.
  • Participate in various design and operational reviews.
  • Address production issues with analysis and long-term solutions.
  • Create monitoring tools and documentation for internal users.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across OCI for service enhancements.
  • Apply security principles in service design across the build lifecycle.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance for team members and their families.
  • Flexible work hours with a hybrid work model.
  • Opportunities for professional development and upskilling.
  • Access to a supportive and collaborative work environment.
Full 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.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

As an Senior Software Developer on the OCI BUILD team, you will:
  • Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate major features for OCI build services and supporting infrastructure.
  • Build and improve distributed services, APIs, orchestration workflows, build execution systems, and CI/CD integration points.
  • Own production-quality improvements across build reliability, scalability, performance, security, and developer experience.
  • Work on systems that manage build inputs, artifacts, third-party dependencies, build logs, credentials, policies, and publishing workflows.
  • Improve automation around build execution, artifact generation, dependency ingestion, validation, and release readiness.
  • Participate in design reviews, code reviews, operational reviews, and production readiness assessments.
  • Own production issues through root-cause analysis, remediation, follow-up fixes, and long-term reliability improvements.
  • Build observability, dashboards, alarms, runbooks, and debugging tools that help internal customers self-serve common build and release issues.
  • Collaborate with partner teams across OCI, including Pipelines, Artifact, DevOps, Security, Compliance, Region Build, ODO, Exec, Test, and service-owner teams.
  • Apply security and compliance principles to service design, including authentication, authorization, secret handling, auditability, artifact integrity, dependency provenance, and secure service-to-service communication.
  • Contribute to engineering quality through documentation, automated tests, operational tooling, and repeatable launch processes.
Required Qualifications
  • 4+ years of software development experience building and operating distributed services.
  • Strong development experience in Java, C++, C#, Go, Python, or similar programming languages.
  • Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Experience designing and launching production features, including design documentation, implementation, testing, rollout, and operational follow-through.
  • Experience operating production services, including monitoring, alarms, incident response, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
  • Good understanding of databases, persistence layers, service state management, and distributed failure handling.
  • Experience working independently on complex technical tasks while collaborating effectively with partner teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including clear design documents, operational updates, and technical tradeoff analysis.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform such as Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience with build systems, CI/CD platforms, release automation, artifact publishing, dependency management, or developer productivity infrastructure.
  • Experience building or integrating with systems such as Maven, Gradle, Artifactory-style repositories, container registries, pipeline engines, or internal deployment platforms.
  • Experience developing or operating Kubernetes-based applications, job execution platforms, or containerized service infrastructure.
  • Experience with supply-chain security concepts such as artifact signing, provenance, dependency control, vulnerability management, SBOMs, and secure publishing workflows.
  • Understanding of cloud security concepts such as IAM, resource principals, mTLS, secret management, audit logging, authorization boundaries, and secure service-to-service communication.
  • Experience applying threat modeling, risk analysis, or security review practices to distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with compliance-sensitive environments, government cloud requirements, or regulated cloud operations.
  • Experience with observability systems, logging pipelines, metrics, dashboards, alerting, and production debugging.
  • Interest in applying AI-assisted automation to build failure diagnosis, CI/CD optimization, security analysis, operational triage, documentation, or developer productivity.


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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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