Senior Platform Software Engineer - Kubernetes

Are you passionate about Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and open source software? Do you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges at scale? Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and help build the next generation of cloud-native services that power enterprise workloads around the world. As a Senior Platform Software Engineer , you will be part of a team focused on enhancing the Kubernetes experience on OCI. You will design, develop, and deliver innovative solutions that help customers deploy, manage, and scale applications using modern cloud-native technologies. Your work will directly contribute to strategic initiatives such as Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management, infrastructure automation, and open-source projects that simplify running workloads on OCI. You'll collaborate with talented engineers across OCI to build reliable, scalable, and secure distributed systems while contributing to the broader Kubernetes and CNCF ecosystem. This is an opportunity to work on impactful projects, influence technical direction, and solve challenging problems that affect customers at a global scale. We're looking for engineers who are curious, collaborative, and passionate about building high-quality software. If you thrive in a fast paced environment, enjoy taking ownership, and want to help shape the future of cloud infrastructure, we'd love to hear from you. 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. 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: $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. Career Level - IC3