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Merino is OCI's internal CI/CD change workflow platform, enabling the reliable build, validation, approval, and deployment of software across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. As OCI continues to scale its cloud services, Merino plays a critical role in improving release automation, deployment safety, developer productivity, and operational excellence across engineering teams.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and evolve the next generation of Merino's platform capabilities. This hands-on engineering role focuses on developing scalable distributed systems, modern CI/CD workflows, and cloud-native platform services that power OCI software delivery. The successful candidate will contribute across the full software lifecycle-from architecture and implementation to deployment, operations, and continuous improvement.
The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building cloud-native or developer platform services, and a passion for delivering reliable, maintainable systems. They thrive in collaborative environments, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and leverage modern engineering practices-including AI-assisted development-to improve productivity while maintaining high standards for quality, security, testing, and operational readiness.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and operate Merino platform capabilities supporting OCI-scale CI/CD, change management, and deployment orchestration.
• Build reliable, scalable distributed services that improve workflow automation, deployment safety, observability, and developer experience.
• Implement high-quality software across the full development lifecycle, including testing, deployment, monitoring, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Develop integrations across build systems, release management, approvals, rollback, and deployment workflows.
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and technical planning.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver robust platform capabilities that accelerate OCI software delivery.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering practices and automation responsibly to improve development efficiency while maintaining production-quality standards.
Required Qualifications
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building distributed systems, cloud services, developer platforms, or CI/CD infrastructure.
• Strong programming experience in Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production cloud services on OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, DevOps practices, infrastructure automation, containers, orchestration, or deployment pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and software engineering fundamentals.
Preferred Experience
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar coding assistants.
• Experience reviewing, validating, and maintaining AI-generated code for production systems.
• Experience using AI to accelerate software development through code generation, testing, refactoring, documentation, or migration activities.
• Experience building internal developer platforms with a focus on reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
• Experience with release orchestration, progressive delivery, rollback strategies, and large-scale production deployments.
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.
Career Level - IC3
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