Senior Platform Software Engineer - Project Merino

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is redefining how cloud services are built, validated, and released at scale. Merino is OCI’s internal CI/CD change workflow platform, orchestrating build, validation, change management, and deployment across OCI.

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

Life insurance and AD&D:

1. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
2. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
3. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
4. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
5. 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.
6. 11 paid holidays
7. 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.
8. Paid parental leave
9. Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan:

1. Financial planning and group legal
2. 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

Key Responsibilities

· Design, implement, and operate Merino platform capabilities for OCI-scale CI/CD and change workflow orchestration.
· Own implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, operational readiness, and production support for platform services.
· Improve workflow reliability, deployment safety, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
· Build systems integrating build, release bundle, change management, approval, rollback, and deployment workflows.
· Break down complex platform problems into clear, maintainable engineering solutions.
· Contribute to high standards for code quality, system design, operational excellence, and maintainability.
· Use production signals and customer feedback to identify and prioritize platform improvements.
· Participate in design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and technical planning.
· Partner with engineering and product teams to deliver reliable Merino platform capabilities.
· Apply AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows effectively while maintaining engineering rigor.

Required Qualifications
· 5+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems, developer platforms, CI/CD systems, infrastructure automation, or cloud services.
· Strong programming skills in Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar languages.
· Experience operating reliable cloud services in OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
· Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, release automation, IaC, containers, orchestration, or deployment pipelines.
· Ability to work through ambiguity and deliver maintainable solutions across complex systems.
· Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Experience
· Hands-on use of Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar agentic coding tools.
· Experience using AI-generated code with strong review, testing, and ownership of production quality.
· Experience using AI to explore codebases, generate tests, refactor systems, improve documentation, or accelerate migrations.
· Experience building internal engineering platforms with a strong focus on developer experience and reliability.
· Experience with release orchestration, progressive rollout, rollback validation, and large-scale production deployments.

Why Oracle Cloud and Merino?
Merino sits at the center of OCI software delivery. This role offers the opportunity to improve developer productivity, release safety, and operational confidence while helping define the future of AI-assisted software delivery.