Senior Platform Software Engineer at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$92,500–$209,500from the description
Aug 18, 2026
Nashville, TN
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a software engineering role on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) focused on building and operating large-scale distributed cloud systems and infrastructure automation tooling. The engineer will design and develop IaC integrations, libraries, and platform services that allow enterprise customers to manage OCI resources programmatically. The role suits someone with a distributed-systems background who writes production code and has hands-on Terraform experience.
Mid level · 4+ years · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The posting is titled 'Career Level - IC3', which is an Oracle-internal level roughly corresponding to a mid-level individual contributor; the public title carries no explicit seniority label, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 4+ years requirement and IC3 designation support a Mid classification.
No specific work location is stated beyond 'US'; the CBSA and state fields are left blank accordingly. The compensation range ($92,500–$209,500/yr) is unusually wide, which Oracle explicitly attributes to variations across locations, experience, and business lines.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience', which means equivalent experience is accepted — so no hard degree gate is set.
Java is listed as the primary named language in the required section alongside C, C++, C#, Go, and Python as interchangeable alternatives; all are captured under one skill entry.
Terraform is the primary named IaC tool in the required section; CloudFormation, Pulumi, and Ansible appear in the responsibilities narrative as equivalents and are captured as alternatives.
Go appears again under Preferred Qualifications specifically for infrastructure tooling context, listed separately as a preferred skill.
'Distributed systems' is retained as a skill because the posting repeatedly gates on it with firm language ('4+ years building and operating large-scale, highly available, cloud-based distributed systems'); it names a concrete technical domain rather than a generic soft concept.
AWS EC2/EBS/Lambda/Dynamo/S3 are cited as examples of cloud platform experience; captured as 'AWS' with Azure and GCP as common equivalents. OCI itself is the target platform but is not listed as a candidate prerequisite.
TCP/IP and HTTP appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
Agile/SCRUM appears only under Preferred Qualifications.
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