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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Oklahoma City, OK, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $79,200.0 - $209,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Software Engineering, Technical Debt, Information Technology, Production Code
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/E8567B6237174B92AF3DEFF3E962BA1E/job/

## About the Role

* 4-8 years of relevant software engineering experience.
 * BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent domain-specific experience.
 * Experience building and operating production software systems.
 * Strong coding, testing, debugging, and design skills.
 * Ability to work independently and make thoughtful technical tradeoffs.
 * Experience with operational services, incident response, metrics, dashboards, or service health monitoring.

## Description

* Design, implement, test, and operate major new features in existing systems.
 * Own feature and subsystem design, including tradeoffs around security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, performance, and change management.
 * Write production-quality code that is correct, secure, maintainable, robust, and well-tested.
 * Drive operational readiness and excellence for owned features and subsystems.
 * Participate in planning and risk identification for systems and services across the director-level organization.
 * Work independently on most projects while seeking guidance for complex, mission-critical, high-scale, or cross-team problems.
 * Support on-call operations, triage issues, and remediate problems without routine assistance.
 * Lead or contribute to root-cause analysis and propose practical solutions.
 * Develop or improve metrics, dashboards, and tools that increase situational awareness.
 * Identify and implement improvements that reduce operational load, reduce manual touchpoints, increase service availability, improve compliance with organizational standards, and reduce technical debt.
 * Improve the team through engineering practices, operational practices, development process, ownership, and mentoring.


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