Principal Platform Software Engineer

Salary: $135,200 - 306,400 per year Requirements:

• We are looking for strong experience designing, building, and running large-scale distributed systems in production cloud environments.
• We need deep knowledge of cloud platform architecture, orchestration systems, APIs, resiliency, observability, and operational safety.
• We are seeking strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• We want experience leading complex cross-functional technical initiatives and shaping architecture across teams.
• We require solid software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code quality, design patterns, and maintainability.
• We value experience with databases, distributed systems, API design, and production debugging.
• We are looking for hands-on experience with AI-assisted software engineering and engineering automation.
• We need excellent written and verbal communication, technical leadership, and mentoring skills.
• Preferred experience includes Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or another hyperscale cloud platform.
• Preferred experience includes deployment orchestration, release automation, cloud control planes, or internal developer platforms.
• Preferred experience includes compliance-sensitive or sovereign cloud environments.
• Preferred experience includes defining engineering standards, SLOs, rollout policies, and observability frameworks.
• Preferred experience includes building reusable platform libraries, automation frameworks, and reference implementations.

• We will lead the architecture, design, and implementation of Shepherd platform capabilities for release orchestration, deployment safety, rollback automation, dependency modeling, and operational workflows.
• We will design and build highly available distributed systems that operate reliably across cloud-scale, multi-region, and partially connected environments.
• We will shape long-term platform architecture, including APIs, service boundaries, persistence models, workflow execution, resiliency, compatibility, and extensibility.
• We will partner across engineering, SRE, security, compliance, infrastructure, and OCI service teams to deliver cross-organizational technical initiatives.
• We will establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, observability, operational readiness, and maintainability.
• We will provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design documents, production-ready code, mentoring, and incident investigations.
• We will develop automation and AI-assisted engineering workflows that improve developer productivity while preserving production quality, security, and reliability.
• We will continuously improve platform reliability, deployment safety, operational efficiency, and engineering excellence.

• AI
• API
• Cloud
• Support
• Java
• Oracle
• Python
• Security
• TypeScript
• DevOps

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We are collaborating with Oracle to connect exceptional professionals with this role on Shepherd, OCIs cloud-scale release orchestration platform. Shepherd enables the safe and reliable deployment of software, infrastructure, and configuration changes across regions, realms, and critical cloud services, and it is evolving into a resilient orchestration control plane for cloud-scale change as OCI expands into sovereign, regulated, and large-scale deployment environments. This is a hands-on technical leadership position at career level IC5, offering a competitive US hiring range of $135,200 to $306,400 per year, with potential bonus, equity, and deferred compensation. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal support; and optional coverage such as auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.

last updated 36 week of 2026