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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Platform Software Engineer - **Company:** Oracle - **Location:** Saint Paul, MN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $92,500.0 - $209,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Code Review, Computer Programming, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, System Software, Policy as Code, Delivery Pipeline, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Golang - **Published:** August 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gpg9ay ## About the Role As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will design and deliver reliable, secure, and delightful deployment capabilities that improve the day-to-day lives of developers. You will help teams move faster with confidence, shorten the path from idea to customer value, and establish industry-leading foundations for the rapid adoption of agentic engineering-without compromising the safety, governance, or reliability of our systems. **Required qualifications:** Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. + 3+ years of professional software development experience, with a record of delivering production-quality distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools. + Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar. + Experience designing APIs, data models, and service architectures with attention to scalability, availability, security, and operability. + Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering concepts. + Demonstrated ownership: you can drive work from problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and ongoing operation. + Clear written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines. **Preferred qualifications:** Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus. + Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering. + Large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant cloud services, control planes, or workflow orchestration. + Site reliability engineering, production incident response, observability, or capacity and performance engineering. + Security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation. AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or the design of safety controls for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems ## Description + Design, build, test, and operate core services and APIs for a modern application deployment platform on OCI. + Deliver resilient, scalable deployment workflows that make it easier for developers to safely ship changes across diverse environments and service architectures. + Partner with product managers, architects, security engineers, SREs, and developer teams to turn ambiguous platform needs into clear technical designs and high-quality software. + Build safety and reliability into the product by default: strong isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, rollback and recovery paths, and thoughtful failure handling. + Develop platform primitives that enable AI- and agent-assisted engineering workflows while maintaining appropriate controls, least-privilege access, and human oversight. + Use operational signals and customer feedback to improve developer experience, performance, availability, and deployment success rates. + Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, design reviews, documentation, mentoring, and pragmatic technical leadership. 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