Senior Software Development Engineer (OCI)

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is redefining the cloud for the world's largest enterprises. We operate with the agility and innovation of a startup while delivering the scale, security, and reliability expected from one of the world's leading technology companies.

OCI powers mission-critical workloads for customers globally, offering a comprehensive cloud platform built for high performance, distributed systems, and enterprise-grade reliability. Our engineering culture is grounded in OCI Values - emphasizing integrity, inclusion, innovation, customer focus, and operational excellence. We invest deeply in our people and foster an environment where diverse perspectives, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning drive breakthrough results.

At OCI, you'll work alongside exceptional engineers solving some of the most complex distributed systems challenges at cloud scale.

The OCI Limits Team owns the foundational platform that manages service limits, quotas, and capacity governance across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The team enables customers and internal OCI services to scale reliably and securely by providing automated limit management, quota enforcement, and high-scale control plane integrations. We work closely with service teams across OCI to support rapid cloud growth, operational stability, and enterprise-grade resource governance. The organization operates highly distributed, mission-critical systems that directly impact customer onboarding, expansion, and cloud consumption experiences.

Who We're Looking For

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer with strong experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and scalable service development. You are a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems and building reliable, highly available services that operate at cloud scale.

You have experience designing and developing major features, operating production systems, and improving service reliability and performance. You thrive in fast-paced environments, take ownership of your work, and collaborate effectively across engineering teams.

The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with operational awareness, technical curiosity, and a passion for building scalable and maintainable systems.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, and operate scalable distributed services for the OCI Limits platform.
• Contribute to the architecture, implementation, and delivery of major platform features and service enhancements.
• Build highly available, reliable, and performant cloud-native services.
• Partner with OCI service teams to support quota management, resource governance, and cloud scalability initiatives.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and participate in operational support and on-call rotations.
• Improve service scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational efficiency.
• Write clean, maintainable, and high-quality production code.
• Participate in technical design discussions, code reviews, and engineering best practices initiatives.
• Drive automation for testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and architects to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Identify and proactively address reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture focused on learning and continuous improvement.

This team is targeting candidates in the U.S. who can work ONSITE in Nashville-TN (priority location) [Secondary Location is Austin-TX]. Relocation Assistance provided. (This is NOT a remote position).

Minimum Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and cloud services.
• Experience developing and operating services on public cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong programming experience in Java, Go, Python, C++, or similar modern programming languages.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, scalability, fault tolerance, and service-oriented architectures.
• Hands-on experience building and operating highly available cloud-native services in production environments.
• Experience with REST API design and distributed service architectures.
• Experience with databases, NoSQL systems, storage technologies, and distributed persistence systems.
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, HTTP, and standard cloud network architectures.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning in large-scale systems.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building infrastructure control plane services, quota management systems, or cloud governance platforms.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
• Experience operating distributed systems across multiple geographic regions.
• Experience improving developer productivity through automation, tooling, and operational process improvements.
• Experience contributing to large-scale technical initiatives in cross-functional engineering environments.

Qualifications

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: $79,200 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

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