Senior Software Engineer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical cloud services for leading enterprises around the world. OCI provides hyperscale, multi-tenant services across a global cloud footprint and continues to expand across dedicated, hybrid, multicloud, edge, data, and AI capabilities.

We are building the Molecular Platform: cloud capabilities that help scientific and enterprise customers manage complex data, workflows, and related services. The team is developing initial capabilities with strategic customers and evolving them into reusable OCI platform offerings.

We are seeking a Software Developer 3 to help build and operate Molecular Platform services. In this role, you will work with experienced engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable software, understand customer workflows, and contribute to rapid product iteration. You will develop production-quality components while building depth in cloud platforms, distributed data systems, scientific workflows, and AI-enabled services.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for Molecular Platform services.
• Implement backend services, APIs, data-ingestion and processing components, workflow integrations, automation, and operational tooling.
• Work with engineers and product managers to understand requirements and translate customer scenarios into well-defined software features.
• Contribute to rapid iteration by investigating customer feedback, troubleshooting issues, and improving product functionality.
• Write clean, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code using established OCI 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 tasks related to deployment, configuration, testing, and service operations.

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, cloud-native services, distributed-system components, data-processing applications, or workflow systems.
• 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, applied scientists, and senior engineers.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and cloud services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Software Development

• Implement features and services from defined requirements and technical designs.
• Develop maintainable code, APIs, data-processing components, integrations, and automated tests.
• Debug defects and improve the 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, technical requirements, and feedback.
• Help translate feedback into actionable engineering tasks and product improvements.
• Contribute to fast, iterative delivery while maintaining engineering discipline and quality.
• Learn the scientific and technical domain and identify opportunities to make solutions reusable across customers.

Reliability, Security, and Operations

• Add monitoring, logging, and telemetry to owned components.
• Assist with service troubleshooting, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis.
• Follow secure-development practices and OCI standards for reliability, availability, privacy, and operational readiness.
• Contribute to runbooks, support documentation, and automation for deployments, testing, and routine operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or another cloud platform.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, distributed data systems, event-driven architectures, or workflow orchestration.
• Exposure to data engineering, data platforms, scientific data, data pipelines, metadata management, or data governance.
• Exposure to AI/ML platforms, model training, model-serving systems, RAG, evaluation harnesses, AI agents, MCP, or enterprise AI integrations.
• Experience supporting scientific, research, life-sciences, or enterprise platform workloads.

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: $104,500 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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.