Oracle

Principal Software Engineer, Platform

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11 hours ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$105k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 7 years of professional software-engineering experience with 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, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and secure software-development practices.
  • Experience leading or influencing architecture and technical design across teams.
  • Strong judgment, ownership, and written and verbal communication skills.
  • Preferred experience includes microservices, SDKs, RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native deployments, developer-platform products, SLOs, error budgets, observability, capacity planning, API interoperability, backward compatibility, migrations, platform adoption, and mentoring engineers.

Benefits

  • Office-based role requiring onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee, with possible relocation assistance.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and supplemental life insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts, pre-tax commuter and parking benefits, and a 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial planning, group legal benefits, and voluntary insurance benefits.

Tech Stack

C#C++GoJavaOracle Cloud

Categories

Oracle

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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