Oracle

Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle
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5 days ago

Base Salary

$114k - $306k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead systems and platform initiatives from problem definition and architecture through implementation, rollout, adoption, and production validation.
  • Write and review secure, maintainable, well-tested Java code for high-throughput distributed services.
  • Design routing, authentication, private connectivity, throttling, load shedding, backpressure, caching, concurrency, and failure-recovery mechanisms.
  • Establish capacity models, performance objectives, service-level indicators and objectives, metrics, alarms, dashboards, runbooks, load-testing plans, and deployment safeguards.
  • Lead complex incident investigations and convert recurring failures and manual processes into automation and preventive engineering improvements.
  • Provide architectural direction, mentor engineers, improve engineering standards and reusable systems, contribute to hiring, and shape the team roadmap.
  • Align partner teams on technical decisions, ownership, dependencies, rollout plans, risks, and progress.

Requirements

  • Hands-on technical leadership experience architecting and delivering critical platform systems and initiatives across teams.
  • Strong experience building high-throughput Java services and distributed systems.
  • Ability to make tradeoffs involving availability, consistency, latency, throughput, durability, cost, and operational complexity.
  • Experience designing for partial failures, retries, duplicate requests, mixed-version deployments, dependency degradation, and regional disruption.
  • Experience with scalability engineering, observability, load testing, incident response, deployment safeguards, and production reliability.
  • Ability to provide architectural direction across routing, authentication, private connectivity, runtime performance, observability, and deployment infrastructure.
  • Strong communication, mentoring, technical judgment, and ability to drive progress through ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
  • Short-term and long-term disability, 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.
  • US-based employees must complete identity verification involving collection and processing of biometric information, with accommodations potentially available following individualized assessment.

Tech Stack

JavaOracle 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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