Senior Platform Software Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity
Location: 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.
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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Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
8 years of experience in software development
OR
Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development
OR
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 year of experience in software development
OR
Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
Job Skills:
Same skills as prior level plus;
-Distributed Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of distributed systems, including designing or managing scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.
-Prototyping: Demonstrated experience creating and refining prototypes for system validation and stakeholder feedback.
-Computer Science Programming: Demonstrated understanding of computer science principles and ability to implement them in code.
-Software Engineering: Demonstrated proficiency in all phases of software engineering and development.
-Web Development: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of web development, including designing, developing, or maintaining modern web applications using current frameworks.
-Innovation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of innovation, including generating or supporting new ideas, technologies, or processes for organizational growth.
-Cross-Functional/Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of cross-functional collaboration, including working with stakeholders across teams or geographies to achieve common objectives.
Information Vulnerabilities: Demonstrated ability to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT and physical information assets.
-Operating Systems: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of operating systems, including installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting various operating environments.
-API Development: Demonstrated ability to develop, test, and maintain secure APIs for application integration.
-API Integration: Demonstrated ability to build and manage robust API integrations for seamless interoperability between systems.
-Applied Algorithm Engineering: Demonstrated skill in designing, analyzing, and optimizing algorithms for efficiency and scalability.
-Source Control: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of source control, including managing and documenting code versions and release branches.
Coding Experience:
4 years of experience with programming and/or scripting languages (e.g., SQL, C/C++, JavaScript).
Database Experience:
3 years of experience with databases.
Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
8 years of experience in software development
OR
Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development
OR
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development
OR
Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics.
Cloud Platforms Experience:
2 years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).