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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.

Responsibilities

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' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.

+ Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.

+ Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently.

+ Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

+ Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards.

+ Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.

+ Keeps up to date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.

+ Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

+ Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

+ Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

+ Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements. Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.

Collaboration & Partnership:

+ Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.

Problem Solving:

+ Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoo...

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