Principal Software Engineer, Platform - Nashville

Role Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for leading enterprises worldwide. Our cloud offers hyperscale, multi-tenant services deployed across more than 50 regions globally. OCI continues to expand beyond traditional public-cloud boundaries to support dedicated, hybrid, and multicloud solutions, edge computing, and more.

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.

Responsibilities

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.

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

Application Instructions

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