Senior Platform Software Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity

Senior Platform Software Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity

Nashville, TN — onsite 5 days/week. Relocation assistance is available; this is not a remote position.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a motivated Senior Platform Software Engineer to join the OCI Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization. This team develops the platforms, services, workflows, and operational tooling that enable Oracle to plan, source, deploy, and manage capacity across its global cloud infrastructure footprint.

Our systems support critical engineering and business processes across infrastructure planning, capacity forecasting, deployment readiness, sourcing operations, and operational decision-making. We build cloud-native services, workflow platforms, data pipelines, and analytics solutions used by engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance teams across OCI.

As a member of this team, you will independently design, develop, test, and operate software components and services that support infrastructure planning and capacity management. You will solve standard and non-standard engineering problems, improve existing systems and processes, and collaborate with experienced engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver reliable solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building cloud-native applications, and a passion for solving operational challenges through automation, data, and scalable platform development.

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

Key Responsibilities

Platform Software Development:

• Own a bounded platform component (service module, SDK 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience delivering production services or applications.
• Strong programming ability in Java, Python, Go, C#, or a comparable modern language; candidates do not need every language listed.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, or cloud-native applications, with relational and/or distributed databases.
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and system design.
• Familiarity with source control, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work independently and collaborate across teams.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Distributed systems, scalable backend services, and workflow-based applications.
• Data pipelines, ETL, streaming, and operational analytics.
• Capacity management, demand planning, sourcing, supply chain, or data center operations experience.
• OCI or another major cloud platform; Kubernetes, containers, and microservices.

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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: $87,800 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 empl