Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is a company delivering AI and cloud solutions across data, infrastructure, and applications. The Senior Platform Software Engineer delivers platform enhancements for shared services, SDKs, and integration adapters; troubleshoots software and API issues; supports testing, observability, reliability, security, and system maintenance.
Responsibilities
- Deliver minor enhancements to shared services, integration adapters, or SDK surfaces within defined guardrails
- Apply compatibility/versioning rules during fixes and minor rollouts to protect downstream teams
- Propose small observability/resilience improvements based on API/SDK usage signals for a subsystem
- Contributes to designing software solutions and analyzes requirements to achieve business and operational goals, with limited guidance
- Adheres to all phases of the software development lifecycle
- Applies working knowledge to develop and review code for new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code
- Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix simple and moderately complex software issues
- Develops fixes for identified issues
- Implements software testing (e.g., functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, following established frameworks
- Supports the implementation of standard and non-standard performance profiling and optimization of coding
- Troubleshoots and resolves standard and non-standard issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration
- Implements standard and non-standard API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies
- Collaborates with own team and begins to network outside of team to understand customer issues and align solutions
- May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, with limited supervision
- Assists peers to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback
- Influences efforts to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication
- Utilizes working knowledge to implement customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, with some guidance
- Collaborates with experienced colleagues to investigate and troubleshoot product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions
- Begins to collaborate with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards
- Assists in ensuring code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development
- Demonstrates working knowledge of industry best practices and applies them to software development processes
- Assists in implementing 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), with limited guidance
- Assists in driving improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability
- Tracks timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements. Prioritizes and adjusts work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance
- Collaborates within a team to better understand expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages a foundational understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build partnerships with limited guidance. Actively listens and asks questions to enhance collaboration
- Identifies and addresses issues, escalating problems to senior staff as needed in accordance with standard procedures. Compiles and reviews data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors
- Seeks opportunities to gain knowledge and learn new skills and/or tools aligned with industry trends and best practices. Utilizes feedback and training to improve skills. Participates in a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing
- Implements updates to processes, protocols, and workflows to increase efficiency and effectiveness as directed with some guidance. Contributes to ideation for future process improvements
Skills
- Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages: English
- Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
Benefits
- May be eligible for bonus and equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- 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.
- 11 paid holidays
- 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.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
- Volunteer programs
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