Senior Platform Software Engineer

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling.

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.

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a complementary team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and demeanor of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Oracle Generative AI Code Assist Service is an exciting team in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We are delivering innovative services at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure.

Oracle Agent Platform , is a managed platform for building, deploying, governing, and operating AI agents at enterprise scale across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

In Generative AI Oracle Agent Platform team, you will build and operate cloud services maximizing state of art generative AI technologies. We are committed to providing the best in cloud products to meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s most challenging problems.

You will be part of a team of experienced, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact by designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will own software architecture and development of Oracle Generative AI Agent Platform Service. You should be both a rock solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, be hands-on and able to dive deep into any part of the stack, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Our senior engineers are also the people who can work independently and provide technical leadership to the organization. You should have experience developing and operating high-scale services, and an understanding of how to make these cloud-scale services resilient. The ideal candidate will be technically strong and productive; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements.

You understand operational excellence and know-how to infuse a culture of being proactive within your team. You recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data-driven approaches.

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.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements. Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.

Collaboration & Partnership:

Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving:

Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.

Continuous Learning:

Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.

Continuous Improvement:

Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Basic Qualifications:

4+ years of experience with application development

Proficient at programming in Java, and one other major programming/scripting language like Python or Go Lang. Terraform knowledge is a bonus.

Strong background in AI/ML, with a focus on generative AI and AI-driven code generation.

Strong distributed systems fundamentals

Bachelors in computer science and Engineering or related engineering fields

Strong troubleshooting skills and demonstrated ability to deliver quality code

Experience with container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong distributed systems fundamentals

4+ years of experience

Prior production experience with Public Cloud (like AWS, Azure or GCP) tools or services

Masters degree in Computer Science

Experience with Generative AI technologies

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 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.