Principal Platform Software Engineer OCI Tools

Salary: $104,500 - 234,600 per year Requirements:

• We require a bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• We look for 8+ years of professional software development experience, including leading the design and delivery of production-grade distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools.
• We need strong programming ability in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar.
• We value deep experience designing APIs, data models, and service architectures with attention to scalability, availability, security, operability, and long-term maintainability.
• We expect solid knowledge of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering.
• We need proven technical leadership and ownership, including the ability to set direction, align stakeholders, drive cross-team execution, and stay accountable for production outcomes.
• We require excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions and build alignment across engineering groups and organizational boundaries.
• We require the role to be based in Nashville, TN.

• We define the architecture and technical strategy for core services and APIs that power our modern application deployment platform.
• We lead the delivery of resilient, scalable deployment workflows and platform primitives that help developers safely release changes across diverse environments and service architectures.
• We influence product and engineering direction across teams by turning ambiguous, multi-organization needs into clear technical strategies, design principles, and execution plans.
• We establish safety and reliability as platform defaults through strong isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, rollback and recovery paths, and careful failure handling.
• We shape the technical foundations for AI- and agent-assisted engineering workflows, including appropriate controls, least-privilege access, governance, and human oversight.
• We use operational signals, customer feedback, and industry trends to identify high-impact investments that improve developer experience, availability, performance, and deployment success rates.
• We raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews, technical mentorship, design standards, and practical leadership on complex cross-team initiatives.

• AI
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Java
• Oracle
• Python
• Security
• DevOps
• GitOps

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We are collaborating with hackajob to connect with exceptional professionals for this role. Our OCI Developer Platform team is building a new application deployment system that will serve as a critical foundation for how developers build, validate, release, operate, and evolve services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This is a rare opportunity to help shape a greenfield platform with broad customer impact and a direct influence on OCIs next phase of growth. The role is a Principal Software Development Engineer position at the intersection of developer productivity, cloud reliability, and the future of software delivery. We offer a comprehensive U.S. benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, disability and life insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, a 401(k) with company match, paid time off, holidays, paid sick leave, parental leave, adoption assistance, an employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, and voluntary insurance options. The hiring range in the U.S. is $104,500 to $234,600 annually, with possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. The role is based in Nashville, TN.

last updated 36 week of 2026