Senior Platform Software Engineer - OCI Secure Network Engineering

Location: Nashville, TN — onsite 5 days/week. Relocation assistance is available; this is not a remote position.

Work Authorization: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Job Summary

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

About the Team & Organization

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join the Secure Network Engineering team, focusing on the design, development, and integration of Zero Trust Network Services and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solutions.

In this role, you will help build and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure services that support OCI's distributed, multi-tenant environment. You will work on network security technologies, including network routing, firewalls, key-based authentication, and cloud service-level authorization, to strengthen infrastructure security and reduce exposure to cybersecurity threats.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to develop backend services, contribute to system design and architecture, review code, and explore emerging technologies that improve security, reliability, and operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate has strong software development skills, a solid understanding of networking protocols and Linux environments, and experience with cloud computing and Zero Trust security principles.

Why OCI?

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides enterprise cloud services across compute, storage, networking, databases, and security, supporting mission-critical workloads in distributed cloud environments.

The Secure Network Engineering team is developing Zero Trust Network Service and PKI Infrastructure Services to strengthen network security through identity-based authentication, authorization, and secure access controls.

This role provides an opportunity to work on cloud infrastructure security challenges involving distributed systems, network security, and scalable backend engineering.

Responsibilities

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.

Org-Specific Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including designing, developing, testing, and maintaining backend services or cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or Python or similar programming language.
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and fundamental network communication concepts.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Network Service concepts, principles, and security architectures.
• Hands-on experience working in Unix/Linux environments.
• Understanding of cloud computing technologies, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Foundational knowledge of AI technologies and their potential applications in software engineering or cloud environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.

Org-Specific Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced AI knowledge or experience applying AI technologies to software development, automation, or infrastructure engineering.

• Experience with containerization technologies and Kubernetes.

• Experience using infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.

• Knowledge of database technologies and their integration with backend services.

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Qualifications

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

OR

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

OR

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

OR

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

OR

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

OR

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

OR

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

OR

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

OR

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 years of experience in software development

OR

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 years of experience in software development

OR

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics. 
Cloud Platforms Experience:
2 years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).
 

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