Senior Platform Software Engineer

You will develop production-quality components while building depth in cloud platforms, distributed data systems, scientific workflows, and AI-enabled services. You will combine strong software engineering skills with a practical understanding of bioinformatics or computational science across areas such as genomics, plant biology, or generative biology.

You are expected to work at Oracle’s London or Reading offices 4 days a week for this role. The role will also require you to frequently travel to Oxford.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for cloud platform services.

• Implement backend services, APIs, data-ingestion and processing components, workflow integrations, automation, and operational tooling.

• Work with other engineers and product managers to understand requirements and translate customer scenarios into well-defined software features.

• Contribute to rapid iteration by investigating customer feedback, troubleshooting issues, and improving product functionality.

• Write clean, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code using established OCI engineering practices.

• Build unit, integration, and functional tests; participate in performance and resilience testing.

• Add logging, metrics, telemetry, health checks, and alerts to improve service observability.

• Help investigate, debug, and resolve service issues in development and production environments.

• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and engineering-planning activities.