Senior Platform Software Engineer - OCI
Company: Oracle
Location: Austin, TX, United States
Salary: $92.5k - $209.5k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-09-18
About this role
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is looking for a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join the PKI team responsible for building and operating cloud-scale Public Key Infrastructure services. In this role, you will design, develop, test, and deliver secure, highly available, and scalable software that manages certificates, cryptographic keys, and trust infrastructure across OCI.
You will work closely with senior engineers, security teams, and partner service teams to deliver new capabilities, improve reliability and operational excellence, and contribute to the evolution of OCI's security platform. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building distributed systems, an interest in applied cryptography and cloud security, and enjoys solving complex engineering challenges at cloud scale.
- Design, develop, and operate highly available, secure, and scalable distributed services that power Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including certificate lifecycle management, key management, trust services, and cryptographic infrastructure.
- Own and evolve a bounded platform component or service, defining APIs and service contracts that support secure, multi-tenant cloud deployments while maintaining backward compatibility.
- Design software solutions that meet business, security, operational, and performance objectives, driving technical design discussions from concept through production deployment.
- Lead feature design reviews, technical documentation, and implementation planning while partnering closely with Product Management and cross-functional engineering teams throughout the feature lifecycle.
- Build robust, maintainable, and well-tested software using object-oriented programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or similar, following modern software engineering best practices.
- Apply strong knowledge of distributed systems, operating systems, algorithms, and data structures to solve complex engi...