Senior Platform Software Engineer

OCI provides cloud infrastructure and services for organizations running demanding applications. The Runbooks team, within Operator Tools, builds the platform that makes operational knowledge available to engineers when they need it. We are improving how guidance is created, maintained, discovered, and used, including responsible use of AI to support its quality and ongoing improvement.

Job Responsibilities

As a senior engineer on the Runbooks team, you will:

• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable platform services, APIs, and user-facing capabilities.
• Own components and improve their integration with other services while maintaining a reliable experience for existing users.
• Improve operational guidance and feedback workflows, including thoughtful applications of AI where appropriate.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and deliver durable fixes that improve service reliability.
• Use service metrics and user feedback to improve performance, resilience, and usability.
• Automate repetitive operational and deployment tasks and help reduce the effort required to operate the service.
• Contribute to design discussions, code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing and operating backend services or distributed systems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Strong programming, API design, testing, debugging, and production troubleshooting skills.

• Experience with cloud services, distributed architectures, observability, and operational automation.

• Experience with modern development practices, including code review, CI/CD, and service ownership.

• Ability to make sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations and work effectively across teams.

• Experience with Java or another modern backend language; familiarity with REST APIs, databases, and containerized services is valuable.

• Experience building, integrating, or operating AI-enabled applications or developer tools is preferred. Familiarity with LLM application patterns such as retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, agents, and evaluations is a plus.

• Knowledge of AI security, privacy, observability, and cost management is also valuable.

Employer Description   

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