Oracle Corporation

Senior Platform Software Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software development experience, delivering production software or services.
  • Proficient in programming languages like Java, Go, Python, C++, or C#.
  • Experience in developing backend applications and cloud-native services.
  • Ability to independently deliver well-scoped features with guidance on broader design.
  • Collaborative experience in Agile or iterative development environments.
  • Curious and eager to learn from customers and team members.
  • Exposure to data engineering, IoT, or AI/ML platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop software components for AI and cloud services.
  • Implement backend services, APIs, and automation tools.
  • Collaborate to translate customer scenarios into software features.
  • Investigate customer feedback, troubleshoot issues, and enhance product functionality.
  • Write clean and maintainable code adhering to engineering practices.
  • Build and participate in testing for code quality and reliability.
  • Enhance service observability through logging and monitoring.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Short and long-term disability benefits.
  • Life insurance and AD&D coverage.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Flexible paid time off and sick leave policies.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance options.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan and financial planning services.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking a Software Developer 3 to help build and operate AI and cloud platform capabilities supporting a strategic enterprise customer engagement. The team is developing an initial capability for a large customer and evolving it into a reusable OCI platform offering.

In this role, you will work with experienced engineers, product management, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable software, learn the customer's technical needs, and contribute to rapid product iteration. You will develop production-quality components while building depth in cloud platforms, data systems, IoT, or AI technologies.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for AI and cloud platform services.


  • Implement backend services, APIs, integrations, automation, data-processing components, and operational tooling.


  • Work with engineers and product managers to understand requirements and translate customer scenarios into software features.


  • Contribute to rapid iteration by investigating customer feedback, troubleshooting issues, and improving product functionality.


  • Write clean, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code following established engineering practices.


  • Build unit, integration, and functional tests; participate in performance and resilience testing.


  • Add logging, metrics, telemetry, health checks, and alerts to improve service observability.


  • Help investigate, debug, and resolve service issues in development and production environments.


  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and engineering-planning activities.


  • Automate repeatable operational tasks, deployment workflows, configuration, and testing.


  • Learn and apply OCI standards for reliability, security, availability, and operational readiness.


What You'll Bring

  • 3+ years of professional software-development experience, including experience delivering production software or services.


  • Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, C#, or similar.


  • Experience developing backend applications, distributed-system components, cloud-native services, or data-processing applications.


  • Ability to independently deliver well-scoped features and components, with guidance on broader technical design and prioritization.


  • Experience working collaboratively in an Agile or iterative software-development environment.


  • Curiosity and willingness to learn rapidly from customers, product managers, and senior engineers.


  • Exposure to one or more of the following areas:


  • Data engineering or data platforms, including ingestion, processing, storage, or pipelines


  • IoT, device connectivity, telemetry, or edge-to-cloud systems


  • AI/ML platforms, model training, model serving, RAG, evaluation harnesses, AI agents, or MCP


  • Familiarity with REST APIs, source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, or cloud services.


  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.


Responsibilities

Software Development

  • Implement features and services from defined technical requirements and designs.


  • Develop maintainable code, APIs, integrations, and automated tests.


  • Debug defects and improve performance, reliability, and usability of owned components.


  • Participate in code reviews and apply feedback to improve technical quality.


Customer-Focused Delivery

  • Support the team in understanding customer workflows and technical requirements.


  • Help turn customer feedback into actionable engineering tasks and product improvements.


  • Contribute to fast, iterative delivery while maintaining quality and engineering discipline.


  • Learn the domain and help identify opportunities to make solutions more reusable across customers.


Reliability & Operations

  • Add monitoring, logging, and telemetry to owned components.


  • Assist with service troubleshooting, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis.


  • Follow operational procedures and contribute to runbooks and support documentation.


  • Help improve automation for deployments, testing, and routine operational tasks.


Security & Collaboration

  • Follow secure-development practices and OCI engineering standards.


  • Work effectively with engineers, product managers, operations, security, and customer-facing teams.


  • Communicate progress, risks, and technical questions clearly and promptly.


  • Pursue ongoing learning in cloud, data, IoT, and AI technologies.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or another cloud platform.


  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, distributed data systems, or event-driven architectures.


  • Exposure to generative AI, RAG, AI agents, MCP, or enterprise AI integrations.


  • Experience supporting enterprise applications, scientific/research workloads, IoT systems, or internal platform services.


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.
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.

About Oracle Corporation

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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143,000 employees
Market Cap
$217.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$12.8 billion
Founded
1977
5 Year Trend
+2.3%
Revenue
$39.6 billion
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