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PRINCIPAL PLATFORM SOFTWARE ENGINEER (IC4)

OCI Log Analytics - Query Language and Distributed Execution

Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Work Arrangement: On-site Monday through Friday

On-Call Requirement: Participation in the team’s on-call rotation is required

Relocation: Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates

POSITION OVERVIEW

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Log Analytics is a cloud-scale observability

platform that enables customers to search, analyze, and derive actionable

insights from massive volumes of machine-generated data. Its query language

supports advanced capabilities, including clustering, anomaly detection, natural

language processing, statistical analysis, and time-series analysis across

terabytes of log data.

We are seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer to help shape the

architecture, query language, and distributed execution platform behind these

capabilities.

In this role, you will

solve complex engineering problems
involving query processing, distributed systems, machine learning, and
generative AI.
You will also have opportunities to develop AI agents and agentic workflows that
make large-scale log investigation and operational troubleshooting faster, more
intuitive, and more effective.
This is a production-facing engineering role based in Nashville, Tennessee. The
selected candidate must work on-site Monday through Friday and participate in
the team’s on-call rotation. Candidates who are interested in relocating to
Nashville are encouraged to apply. Relocation assistance is available for
qualified candidates.
RESPONSIBILITIES
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Lead the architecture, design, and development of OCI Log Analytics
query-language capabilities, including parsing, planning, optimization, and
distributed execution.
• Build scalable systems that execute advanced analytics and machine-learning
algorithms across terabytes of data while meeting demanding latency,
availability, and cost-efficiency requirements.
• Design and develop AI agents and agentic workflows that translate user intent
into effective queries, investigate complex operational issues, and surface
actionable insights.
• Architect secure, resilient, multi-tenant cloud services with appropriate
fault tolerance, replication, throttling, load shedding, and automated recovery.
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across query execution,
indexing, storage, retrieval, and analytics pipelines.
• Define performance, scalability, correctness, availability, and reliability
requirements.
• Develop load, stress, fault-injection, recovery, and performance tests that
validate system behavior at scale.
• Establish service-level objectives, telemetry, dashboards, and alerts that
support operational excellence.
• Lead the investigation and root-cause analysis of complex production issues
and drive corrective and preventive improvements.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, respond to production incidents,
restore service health, and help maintain the reliability and availability of
OCI services.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, software engineers, site
reliability engineers, security teams, and adjacent OCI Observability
organizations.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, promote engineering best
practices, and contribute to hiring and talent development.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or
a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Six or more years of software engineering experience, including experience
designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong programming expertise in Java, Python, or both.
• Experience building cloud-scale, multi-tenant products or services that
support high-throughput, concurrent processing.
• Strong understanding of distributed computing, large-scale data processing,
system reliability, performance optimization, and the complete service
development and operations lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to design systems for scalability, elasticity,
availability, durability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Familiarity with modern AI-assisted software development and a practical
understanding of large language models, AI agents, tool use, and
interoperability protocols such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and
Agent-to-Agent (A2A).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, and written and verbal
communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and deliver results in a
fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.
• Ability and willingness to participate in the team’s on-call rotation and
respond to production incidents.
• Ability to work on-site in Nashville, Tennessee, Monday through Friday.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience building observability, logging, search, analytics, or
query-processing platforms.
• Experience scaling machine-learning, statistical, or analytical algorithms
across very large datasets.
• Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Lucene, Solr, Spark, Parquet,
Kubernetes, or Terraform.
• Experience designing or building query languages, compilers, query planners,
distributed execution engines, indexing systems, or information-retrieval
platforms.
• Proven success improving the performance, scalability, reliability,
resiliency, and recovery characteristics of large-scale production systems.
• Experience developing AI agents, generative AI applications, retrieval
systems, or natural-language interfaces for technical products.
LOCATION, RELOCATION, AND ON-CALL EXPECTATIONS
This position requires working on-site at Oracle’s Nashville, Tennessee,
location Monday through Friday. This is not a remote or hybrid position.
Candidates who do not currently live in the Nashville area must be willing to
relocate. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates.
Participation in the team’s on-call rotation is required. The engineer will
respond to production incidents, troubleshoot complex service issues, restore
service health, and implement improvements that reduce the likelihood and impact
of future incidents.
QUALIFICATIONS
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: $104,500 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible
for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.
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