Senior Platform Software Engineer, OCI Planning & Capacity
OracleLocation: Nashville, TN — onsite 5 days/week. Relocation assistance is available; this is not a remote position. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a motivated Senior Platform Software Engineer to join the OCI 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. 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. 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 …