Oracle

Principal Software Engineer, Platform - Nashville

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18 days 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, safe-rollout, interoperability, and backward-compatibility strategies.
  • Establish reusable patterns for multi-tenant scale, resilience, secure software development, and cross-service compatibility.
  • 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 teams.

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 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.
  • Experience leading or influencing architecture and technical design across teams.
  • Strong judgment, ownership, and written and verbal communication skills.
  • Preferred experience with microservices, SDKs, RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native deployments, or developer-platform products.
  • Preferred experience operating SLOs, error budgets, observability standards, and capacity plans.
  • Preferred experience with API interoperability, backward compatibility, migrations, platform adoption programs, and mentoring engineers.

Benefits

  • Office-based role requiring onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Relocation assistance may be available under Oracle’s relocation policies.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and supplemental insurance.
  • Flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, 401(k) with company match, paid vacation, paid sick leave, and 11 paid holidays.
  • Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, group legal, 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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