Senior Platform Software Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a motivated Software Developer 3 to join the Infrastructure Planning and Capacity Management organization. This team develops the platforms, services, workflows, and operational tooling that enable Oracle to plan, source, deploy, and manage capacity across its global cloud infrastructure footprint.

Our systems support critical engineering and business processes across infrastructure planning, capacity forecasting, deployment readiness, sourcing operations, and operational decision-making. We build cloud-native services, workflow platforms, data pipelines, and analytics solutions used by engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance teams across OCI.

As a member of this team, you will independently design, develop, test, and operate software components and services that support infrastructure planning and capacity management. You will solve standard and non-standard engineering problems, improve existing systems and processes, and collaborate with experienced engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver reliable solutions.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building cloud-native applications, and a passion for solving operational challenges through automation, data, and scalable platform development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and operate cloud-native services supporting OCI infrastructure planning and capacity management.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, workflow components, and automation that support business-critical operational processes.
• Develop software that processes infrastructure, operational, and planning data at scale.
• Implement data ingestion, transformation, and analytics capabilities that improve forecasting accuracy and operational visibility.
• Work with product managers, technical program managers, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to deliver well-defined technical solutions.
• Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues; improve monitoring, observability, reliability, and operational automation.
• Identify and implement practical improvements to workflows, system performance, and manual processes.
• Collaborate with related OCI teams to integrate with infrastructure, inventory, planning, and capacity-management systems.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production support activities as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years professional software development experience building and delivering production services or applications.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, C#, or a similar modern programming language.
• Experience developing backend services, APIs, or cloud-native applications.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and system design.
• Experience working with relational and/or distributed databases.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, source control, monitoring, and observability.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as Codex, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools, to improve software delivery, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing distributed systems, scalable backend services, or workflow-based applications.
• Experience with data engineering, data pipelines, ETL workflows, streaming platforms, or operational analytics.
• Familiarity with infrastructure planning, capacity management, data center operations, hardware lifecycle management, or supply-chain workflows.
• Experience in a cloud infrastructure environment such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, microservices, or cloud-native deployment practices.
• Familiarity with Oracle APEX or low-code application frameworks.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts, including compute, storage, networking, and capacity planning.

What You'll Build

You will contribute to the next generation of OCI planning and capacity-management platforms, including:

• Capacity forecasting and planning services
• Infrastructure sourcing and deployment workflows
• Data pipelines and operational analytics platforms
• Operational reporting and visibility systems
• Process automation and workflow-orchestration services
• Cloud-native platforms supporting OCI's global infrastructure growth

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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.