Senior Platform Software Engineer

Location: Nashville, TN, United States

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team offers the opportunity to build, maintain and operate massive-scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI builds cloud products for customers who are solving some of the world's largest technical and business challenges.

Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) is OCI's managed Kubernetes service that enables customers to deploy, operate, and scale Kubernetes clusters on OCI through seamless integration with OCI Compute, Networking, Storage, Identity, Security, Observability, and Developer services. The OKE team owns a highly available 24x7 cloud service and continues to expand the platform with new capabilities, improved scalability, stronger operational excellence, deeper OCI integrations, and support for increasingly demanding cloud-native workloads.

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer (IC3) who enjoys building reliable software systems and solving challenging engineering problems. This role is ideal for engineers with strong software development fundamentals, experience building distributed systems, and a solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.

As part of the OKE team, you will design, develop, test, deploy, and operate software that provisions, upgrades, and manages Kubernetes clusters across OCI regions. You'll work on Kubernetes lifecycle management, distributed control plane services, automation, developer productivity tooling, and platform capabilities while collaborating closely with engineers across OCI to deliver a secure, scalable, and highly available managed Kubernetes service. Engineers on this team have end-to-end ownership—from design and implementation through production operations—and contribute directly to the reliability, scalability, and customer experience of one of OCI's foundational cloud-native services.

Required Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 4+ years of experience building and operating production software systems, preferably distributed systems or cloud services.

• Strong programming experience in Java or Go.

• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.

• Good understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, including pods, deployments, services, controllers, cluster operations, and cloud-native application patterns.

• Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes, or related cloud-native technologies.

• Experience with CI/CD systems, automated testing, and modern software development practices.

• Experience using AI-assisted software development tools to improve engineering productivity across coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, and engineering judgment.

• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication skills with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

• Experience operating highly available production services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and driving operational excellence.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building or operating multi-tenant cloud infrastructure or managed services.

• Experience with Kubernetes platforms such as OKE, EKS, GKE, or AKS.

• Experience with OCI or other public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes internals, controllers/operators, cluster lifecycle management, networking, or storage.

• Experience with observability platforms, including logging, metrics, tracing, and incident response.

• Experience developing automation, developer productivity tools, or operational tooling.

• Experience contributing to open-source software or cloud-native communities. who enjoys building reliable software systems and solving challenging engineering problems. This role is ideal for engineers with strong software development fundamentals, experience building distributed systems, and a solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.

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We are looking for a software engineer with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in Kubernetes, containers, distributed systems and highly available services. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. The ideal software engineer candidate for this team is a proficient programmer who has a large breadth of knowledge and experience in above mentioned areas. We write distributed, highly available systems to build, update and deploy Kubernetes, plus automation and tooling for testing, deployments and other needs.