Senior Platform Software Engineer, OCI Kubernetes Engine

Department Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers cloud infrastructure services for a wide range of customer workloads. OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) is OCI’s managed Kubernetes service, helping customers deploy and operate containerized applications at scale.

Our team develops and operates software that supports Kubernetes worker nodes, including Linux systems integration and container networking. We build new capabilities, improve performance and reliability, and maintain the automation needed to test, release, and operate a globally available service.

Position Overview

We’re looking for hands-on engineers with expertise and passion for solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle, you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up.

The ideal candidate for this team is a strong software engineer with broad technical knowledge and experience, including areas such as networking, storage, internet protocols, and operating systems. We design, build, and operate distributed, highly available systems to build, update, and deploy Kubernetes, plus automation and tooling for testing, deployments, and other needs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of software engineering experience building, delivering, and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Experience developing and maintaining large Java or Go codebases, along with experience building automation and tooling using languages such as Python.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• A systematic approach to debugging and problem-solving, with the ability to work independently and take responsibility for outcomes.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing or managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes.
• Experience with overlay networking or container networking on Linux.
• Experience with Linux system and service management.
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure.

• Own components within OKE platform services, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and ongoing operation.

• Investigate and resolve complex issues across related distributed services, delivering fixes that protect dependent services and preserve safe upgrade paths.

• Analyze usage, performance, and error budgets to identify and implement targeted improvements in resilience and capacity.

• Lead team-level improvements in automated testing, deployment tooling, and operational workflows to reduce manual work and improve release reliability.

• Collaborate with engineering teams across OCI and with external partners to resolve dependencies and deliver integrated solutions.

• Create and maintain technical documentation, examples, and adoption guidance that help other teams use and operate the components you own.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to investigate service incidents, address customer escalations, and restore service.

• Perform operational maintenance and follow through on improvements that prevent recurring issues.

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.