Senior Platform Software Engineer

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We are seeking a Software Developer 4 to build and operate AI and cloud platform capabilities that support a strategic enterprise customer engagement. This role will work in a fast-paced environment where an initial solution is shaped around a large customer’s requirements and then evolved into a reusable OCI platform capability.

You will partner closely with product management, customer engineering teams, and OCI engineers to translate evolving requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable software. The successful candidate is comfortable working through ambiguity, iterating quickly based on customer feedback, and balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term platform quality.

Qualifications

Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
8 years of experience in software development

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

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

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

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

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

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for AI and cloud platform services.

Implement backend services, APIs, integrations, automation, data-processing components, and operational tooling.

Work with engineers and product managers to understand requirements and translate customer scenarios into software features.

Contribute to rapid iteration by investigating customer feedback, troubleshooting issues, and improving product functionality.

Write clean, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code following established engineering practices.
Build unit, integration, and functional tests; participate in performance and resilience testing.

Add logging, metrics, telemetry, health checks, and alerts to improve service observability.

Help investigate, debug, and resolve service issues in development and production environments.

Participate in code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and engineering-planning activities.

Automate repeatable operational tasks, deployment workflows, configuration, and testing.

Learn and apply OCI standards for reliability, security, availability, and operational readiness.

Responsibilities

Software Development

Implement features and services from defined technical requirements and designs.

Develop maintainable code, APIs, integrations, and automated tests.

Debug defects and improve performance, reliability, and usability of owned components.

Participate in code reviews and apply feedback to improve technical quality.

Customer-Focused Delivery

Support the team in understanding customer workflows and technical requirements.

Help turn customer feedback into actionable engineering tasks and product improvements.

Contribute to fast, iterative delivery while maintaining quality and engineering discipline.

Learn the domain and help identify opportunities to make solutions more reusable across customers.

Reliability & Operations

Add monitoring, logging, and telemetry to owned components.

Assist with service troubleshooting, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis.

Follow operational procedures and contribute to runbooks and support documentation.

Help improve automation for deployments, testing, and routine operational tasks.

Security & Collaboration

Follow secure-development practices and OCI engineering standards.

Work effectively with engineers, product managers, operations, security, and customer-facing teams.

Communicate progress, risks, and technical questions clearly and promptly.

Pursue ongoing learning in cloud, data, IoT, and AI technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or another cloud platform.

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, distributed data systems, or event-driven architectures.

Exposure to generative AI, RAG, AI agents, MCP, or enterprise AI integrations.

Experience supporting enterprise applications, scientific/research workloads, IoT systems, or internal platform services.

What You’ll Bring

- 3+ years of professional software-development experience, including experience delivering production software or services.
- Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, C#, or similar.
- Experience developing backend applications, distributed-system components, cloud-native services, or data-processing applications.
- Ability to independently deliver well-scoped features and components, with guidance on broader technical design and prioritization.
- Experience working collaboratively in an Agile or iterative software-development environment.
- Curiosity and willingness to learn rapidly from customers, product managers, and senior engineers.
- Exposure to one or more of the following areas:
- Data engineering or data platforms, including ingestion, processing, storage, or pipelines
- IoT, device connectivity, telemetry, or edge-to-cloud systems
- AI/ML platforms, model training, model serving, RAG, evaluation harnesses, AI agents, or MCP
- Familiarity with REST APIs, source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, or cloud services.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

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