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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. Key Responsibilities\nPlatform Software Development:\nOwn a bounded platform component (service module, SDK area) and evolve its contracts for multi-tenant use.\n\nPerform deep debugging across a limited-service graph; drive compatibility-safe remediation plans.\n\nImplement targeted resilience/capacity patterns and document adoption guidance for team consumers.\n\nSoftware Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:\nExperience with agentic software development using ChatGPT Codex (or comparable AI coding agents) to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and code review while maintaining production-quality engineering standards.\nAbility to effectively delegate well-defined development tasks to AI coding agents while validating outputs through testing, code review, and sound engineering judgment.\nFamiliarity with iterative prompt design, context management, and repository-aware development workflows to maximize AI-assisted engineering productivity.\nExperience using ChatGPT Codex to accelerate software development across the engineering lifecycle, including feature implementation, debugging, refactoring, test generation, code review, and documentation.\n\nDesigns software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently.\n\nAdheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle.\n\nUtilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code.\n\nLeads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements.\n\nConducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues. Develops fixes for identified issues.\n\nImplements 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.\n\nExercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding.\n\nTroubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.\n\nImplements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.\n\nSoftware Architecture - Software System Structural Design:\nDesigns and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture.\n\nDevelops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices.\n\nCollaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture.\n\nImplements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.\n\nIssue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:\nCollaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions.\n\nMay provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently.\n\nCoaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.\n\nInfluences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.\n\nImplements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently.\n\nInvestigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).\n\nPractices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:\nCollaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards.\n\nExercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.\n\nKeeps up to date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.\n\nImplements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.\n\nDevelopment Operations - System Maintenance:\nPerforms periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).\n\nExercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.\n\nCore Responsibilities\nPlanning & Execution:\nIndependently 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.\n\nCollaboration & Partnership:\nCollaborates 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.\n\nProblem Solving:\nIndependently 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 troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.\n\nContinuous Learning:\nEmbraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.\n\nContinuous Improvement:\nDevelops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.\n\nDisclaimer: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.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $92,500 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.\nOracle 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.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. 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.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. 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.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\nAs part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. 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