Principal Software Engineer, Platform

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for

leading enterprises worldwide. Our cloud offers hyperscale, multi-tenant

services deployed across more than 50 regions globally. OCI continues to expand

beyond traditional public-cloud boundaries to support dedicated, hybrid, and

multicloud solutions, edge computing, and more.

As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will shape the platform

foundations that allow OCI services and their consumers to work together

reliably at scale. You will lead cross-team initiatives involving APIs,

middleware, runtimes, integration frameworks, and developer tooling—setting

technical direction while delivering durable solutions that improve consistency,

compatibility, and developer experience.

This position is office-based and requires onsite presence in Nashville,

Tennessee. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracle's

relocation policies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

What You'll Do

• * Lead the design, development, and evolution of backend platform services,
• APIs, middleware, runtimes, and integration frameworks used across OCI.
• * Define and drive API versioning, lifecycle, deprecation, and safe-rollout
• strategies that protect downstream consumers.
• * Establish reusable patterns for interoperability, multi-tenant scale,
• resilience, and secure software development across multiple services.
• * Drive shared observability practices, including service-level objectives,
• error budgets, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• * Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service issues; lead durable remediation
• and compatibility-safe migration plans.
• * Influence architecture and technical decisions across teams through design
• reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on engineering.
• * Create migration guides, adoption playbooks, documentation, and examples that
• make platform capabilities straightforward to adopt.
• * Mentor engineers and raise the quality of designs, code, operational
• practices, and technical decision-making across the organization.

What You'll Bring

• * Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a
• related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• * 7+ years of professional software-engineering experience, with demonstrated
• impact on backend, platform, or cloud services.
• * Strong experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems
• and evolving production APIs or platform interfaces.
• * Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages,
• such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
• * Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, object-oriented
• design, data structures, algorithms, and secure software-development
• practices.
• * Demonstrated experience leading or influencing architecture and technical
• design across teams.
• * Strong judgment in ambiguous environments, a high degree of ownership, and
• clear written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• * Experience with microservices, SDKs, RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native
• deployments, or developer-platform products.
• * Experience defining or operating SLOs, error budgets, observability
• standards, and capacity plans.
• * Experience with API interoperability, backward compatibility, migrations, or
• platform-adoption programs.
• * Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices across
• multiple teams
• QUALIFICATIONS
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• US: Hiring Range in USD from: $104,500 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible
• for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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• 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
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• from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
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