Oracle

Principal Platform Software Engineer, AI

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2 months ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$105k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical vision, architecture, and multiyear evolution of OCI’s AI-native developer platforms.
  • Lead the design and delivery of secure, highly available services across large-scale distributed cloud environments.
  • Architect systems that analyze service behavior, model traffic, generate workloads, and evaluate functional and non-functional outcomes.
  • Establish agent-assisted workflows for canary, functional, integration, load, and performance testing with safety controls.
  • Apply machine learning and LLM capabilities to service telemetry, API changes, incidents, test results, and engineering knowledge.
  • Develop approaches for failure diagnosis, regression detection, workload modeling, and converting production incidents into reusable test coverage.
  • Define platform APIs, data models, extension points, and integration patterns for adoption across OCI services.
  • Set standards for scalability, reliability, observability, security, privacy, performance, and responsible AI.
  • Define metrics and feedback loops for test effectiveness, coverage, developer effort saved, reliability, and adoption.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor senior engineers, resolve cross-team architectural challenges, and improve engineering standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least eight years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale production systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more of Java, Go, Python, or C++.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, system design, APIs, concurrency, data modeling, and scalable service architectures.
  • Experience defining architecture and delivering complex platforms, backend services, microservices, event-driven systems, or large-scale data pipelines.
  • Experience developing and operating cloud-native software with containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure automation.
  • Strong understanding of service reliability, observability, performance engineering, security, and production operations.
  • Experience integrating machine learning, generative AI, or other intelligent capabilities into production software.
  • Ability to lead high-impact initiatives across multiple teams, influence without direct authority, and navigate ambiguity.
  • Strong technical judgment and communication skills with engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
  • Track record of mentoring senior engineers and improving engineering practices.
  • Preferred experience with developer platforms, CI/CD systems, testing infrastructure, or engineering productivity tools at enterprise scale.
  • Preferred experience with machine learning, generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, LLM-as-a-judge approaches, or model evaluation.
  • Preferred experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, traffic replay, workload modeling, canary analysis, load testing, performance testing, or chaos engineering.
  • Preferred deep experience with Kubernetes, containers, service meshes, OCI or another major public cloud, extensible multi-tenant platforms, API schemas, service dependencies, incidents, traffic patterns, AI safety, model monitoring, privacy, and secure enterprise data handling.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental life insurance.
  • Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
  • 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Financial planning, group legal, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.
  • The role is a full-time Oracle position at Career Level IC4; the posting generally accepts applications for at least three calendar days or while it remains posted.

Tech Stack

C++GoHugging Face TransformersJavaKubernetesOracle CloudPythonPyTorchTensorFlow
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About Oracle

10,000+ employees

Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.

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