Senior Platform Software Engineer

Oracle is a leading company in AI and cloud solutions, committed to innovation and community support. The Senior Platform Software Engineer will own complex components within platform services, lead improvements to integration frameworks, and perform deep debugging across distributed services.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Experience with agentic software development using ChatGPT Codex (or comparable AI coding agents) to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and code review while maintaining production-quality engineering standards
• Ability to effectively delegate well-defined development tasks to AI coding agents while validating outputs through testing, code review, and sound engineering judgment
• Familiarity with iterative prompt design, context management, and repository-aware development workflows to maximize AI-assisted engineering productivity
• Experience using ChatGPT Codex to accelerate software development across the engineering lifecycle, including feature implementation, debugging, refactoring, test generation, code review, and documentation
• 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
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 3 to 5+ years of experience in software development
• Ability to read, write, and speak English
• Experience with agentic software development using ChatGPT Codex (or comparable AI coding agents)
• Ability to effectively delegate well-defined development tasks to AI coding agents while validating outputs through testing, code review, and sound engineering judgment
• Familiarity with iterative prompt design, context management, and repository-aware development workflows
• Experience using ChatGPT Codex to accelerate software development across the engineering lifecycle
• Ability to design software solutions and analyze requirements to achieve business and operational goals independently
• Experience in adhering to and suggesting improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications
• Experience in leading code reviews to help drive improvements
• Ability to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues
• Experience in implementing software testing, quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability
• Ability to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving moderately complex issues related to API functionality and integration
• Experience in implementing moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies
• Ability to design and develop software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture
• Working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices
• Experience in collaborating with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture
• Experience in implementing moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design
• Ability to collaborate within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions
• Ability to provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues independently
• Experience in coaching, mentoring, and guiding others to advocate for customers' interests
• Ability to influence team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues
• Experience in implementing customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes independently
• Ability to investigate and troubleshoot complex product maintenance issues
• Experience in collaborating with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards
• Ability to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development
• Experience in keeping up to date with industry best practices and applying them to software development processes
• Experience in implementing secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities
• Ability to perform periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching
• Ability to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems
• Ability to independently manage work, monitoring timelines and deliverables
• Experience in collaborating across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives
• Ability to independently identify and address standard and non-standard issues
• Experience in analyzing data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot errors
• Ability to embrace continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills
• Experience in developing ideas and recommending updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes