Principal Platform Software Engineer

Location: Nashville, TN, United States

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. 

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

About Us

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