The posting
Job Description
As a Senior Platform Engineer on the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, you’ll design, build, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable cloud services that power our global authentication and authorization systems. You’ll contribute to the technical direction of key projects, write high-quality code, and collaborate closely with engineers across multiple teams to deliver impactful solutions.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native services and microservices.
- Build highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Participate in software design reviews and contribute to technical discussions.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call rotations.
- Analyze system performance and implement improvements for scalability and reliability.
- Collaborate with Product Management, and partner engineering teams.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback.
- Contribute to operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and documentation.
- Continuously improve engineering practices, tooling, and development processes.
Required Technical Skills
- Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar language.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience developing REST APIs and microservices.
- Knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, and asynchronous programming.
- Understanding of cloud computing concepts and service-oriented architectures.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern development practices.
- Understanding of system security, authentication protocols, and compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, PCI DSS).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.
- Experience operating production cloud services.
- Familiarity with public cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing).
- Experience with applied crytography.
Expectations
As Senior Platform Engineer you would be responsible for:
Technical Execution
- Independently deliver medium-sized features and enhancements.
- Break down problems into manageable technical tasks.
- Produce clean, maintainable, and production-ready code.
- Identify and fix production issues with minimal guidance.
Ownership
- Own one or more service components.
- Drive features from design through deployment.
- Take responsibility for operational health of owned components.
- Participate in incident response and postmortem activities.
Collaboration
- Work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Participate actively in design and code reviews.
- Mentor interns and junior engineers on day-to-day engineering practices.
Operational Excellence
• Build automation to reduce operational toil.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and service reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production support.
• Continuously improve service availability and performance.
Success Indicators
A successful Senior Platform Engineer consistently:
- Delivers high-quality features on schedule.
- Demonstrates ownership of production services.
- Writes reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Makes sound technical decisions with limited supervision.
- Resolves production issues efficiently.
- Contributes positively to team engineering culture.
- Earns trust through technical competence and execution.
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Qualifications
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.
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