Senior Software Engineer, Search Platform

Overview
OCI Resource Query Service is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help evolve a critical cloud resource-discovery service into a richer resource analytics platform. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership across a complex, established distributed service.
Why OCI
This role has direct customer impact at cloud scale: it helps make complex OCI estates easier to understand, supports the foundation for AIOps automation, and partners closely with OCI Console, Console AI, Resource Analytics, and others.
Org: 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.
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
Team Responsibilities
Develop deep technical ownership of RQS services, APIs, data flows, and operational characteristics.
Design and deliver capabilities for relationship-aware resource data and intuitive resource discovery.
Lead technical decisions across a distributed US and India engineering team.
Partner with Console, Console AI, Resource Analytics, and peer teams on integration and delivery plans.
Raise engineering quality through testing, observability, reliability practices, and clear operational ownership.
Translate customer and product needs into pragmatic platform designs under ambitious timelines.
Team Qualifications
Strong software engineering experience with distributed systems and cloud services.
Experience with data-intensive systems, APIs, indexing, query processing, or resource/inventory platforms.
Demonstrated technical leadership without relying on direct authority.
Sound judgment balancing speed, quality, reliability, and maintainability.
Clear written and verbal communication across teams, time zones, and technical disciplines.
Org 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 Products Support:
Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions.
May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently.
Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' int