Oracle Corporation

Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle Corporation • $92K — $209K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in large scale, highly available distributed systems.
  • Strong understanding of AI and prompt engineering, with experience in tools like ChatGPT.
  • Proficiency in Java and familiarity with functional programming languages, preferably Scala.
  • Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
  • Experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.

Responsibilities

  • Own a Compute/Imaging platform component and evolve its contracts for multi-tenant use.
  • Perform deep debugging across the service graph to ensure compatibility and implement remediation.
  • Design software solutions that meet business needs and support operational goals independently.
  • Lead code reviews to enhance code quality and adherence to standards.
  • Implement testing and monitoring processes to enable effective debugging and observability.
  • Develop automation solutions for troubleshooting and maintenance while ensuring strong security controls.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance options, including expert medical opinion services.
  • 401(k) with company match and various savings plan options.
  • Flexible vacation policy along with paid holidays and sick leave.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance programs.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan and financial planning assistance.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Owns moderately complex components within Compute/Imaging platform services; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of Operating System, Infrastructure Orchestration, 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.

Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability. Delivers features and load/performance tests; leverages data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and reviews peers' implementations for scalability compliance. Builds fault-tolerant paths (redundancy, replication, automatic failover), applies recovery-oriented principles, and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts. Proactively detects and mitigates issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks and participates in incident response and RCAs. Implements standard replication and synchronization, develops automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation) while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.

Responsibilities

Platform Software Development:

  • Own a bounded Compute/Imaging platform component (service module area) and evolve its contracts for multi-tenant use.
  • Perform deep debugging across a limited-service graph; drive compatibility-safe remediation plans.
  • Implement targeted resilience/capacity patterns and document adoption guidance for team consumers.


Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

  • Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently.
  • Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
  • Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
  • Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements.
  • Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues. Develops fixes for identified issues.
  • Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead throughout the process.
  • Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding.
  • Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
  • Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.


Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

  • Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture.
  • Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices.
  • Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture.
  • Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:
  • Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions.
  • May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently.
  • Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
  • Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
  • Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently.
  • Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:
  • Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards.
  • Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.
  • Keeps up to date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
  • Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:
  • Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).
  • Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
  • Participate in Teams Oncall Rotations to provide reactive support for team's service area for critical incidents recovery.


Requirements

  • 5+ years' experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
  • Strong knowledge and interest in AI adoption including prompt engineering and agentic programming, with ChatGPT and Codex experience a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of a base language such as Java, with a preference for functional programming language such as Scala.
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Experience with tools such as Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
  • Deep knowledge with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and network architectures.
  • Ability to design, troubleshoot and maintain networking infrastructure for high throughput use cases.
  • Strong understanding of databases, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
  • Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
  • Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus.


Qualifications

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.

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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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