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The App Configuration Service team is building a new platform service for OCI. The service will help OCI teams manage configuration safely, consistently, and reliably across distributed cloud environments. As a new service, the team is aiming to build and operate in an AI-first way from the start, using AI-assisted development, automation, and intelligent operational workflows to improve how we design, build, test, review, document, release, and run the service. This creates a strong opportunity for engineers to learn, experiment, and shape modern AI-enabled engineering practices while working on a high-impact cloud platform service.
Do you want to build great things in a vibrant, high-energy team? Are you an experienced developer looking for a role with meaningful technical impact? We are looking for an engineer with cloud experience to join our development team. The ideal candidate will be technically strong, comfortable working on distributed cloud systems, and motivated to build reliable platform services for Oracle's IaaS cloud environment.
As a Senior Member of Technical Staff, you will help design, develop, test, and operate components of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will work with other engineers and partner teams to build scalable distributed systems, improve engineering workflows, and contribute to AI-enabled tools and automation that support code review, test generation, documentation, operational triage, release workflows, configuration analysis, and engineering knowledge retrieval. You should be a strong coder and distributed systems generalist, able to dive into different parts of the stack and understand broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative agile environment, and be excited to learn.
Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience developing service-oriented architectures, APIs, or distributed systems.
• Development experience in Java, C++, or C#, as well as scripting languages.
• Experience working with cloud platform teams and accommodating requirements from areas such as compute, networking, search, and storage.
• Written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely.
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, agile development environment.
• Interest or hands-on experience applying AI-assisted development tools, agents, LLM-based automation, or developer productivity tooling to software engineering workflows.
• Good judgment around safe AI usage, including data privacy, access control, and responsible use of generated code or recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building distributed systems, backend services, or operating services in a cloud environment.
• Familiarity with distributed computing and cloud-based platforms.
• Understanding of cross-functional platform feature areas in cloud platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, or release workflows.
• Experience using AI tools for code generation, code review, test generation, documentation, debugging, operational analysis, or workflow automation.
• Experience improving developer productivity through tools, automation, documentation, or platform workflows.

Responsibilities
As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.
Qualifications
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Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $89,200 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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